Wiley George Dawson

As a small girl my grandmother showed me a letter, written during the Civil War from a soldier to his wife. I asked her who the letter was from & she told me she thought a cousin & that "he died in the last battle of the Civil War, his wife recv'd the letter after his death". I held that letter in my hands & never forgot her words. Year's later, as I made contact w/my cousin Jack Hill, also a family historian, he told me that "your grtgrt grandfather, Wiley George Dawson, died in *the last battle* of Champion Hill". My darling grandmother, Lucille Dawson had her own grandfather's letter to her grandmother, Nancy. That letter was taken out of her belongings after her death & a week doesn't go by w/o me wishing whomever helped themselves, could send it my way. It was a tender link that had been held & touched by 5 generations~