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- GLC#
- GLC03661
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 24 October 1862
- Author/Creator
- Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869
- Title
- to unknown
- Place Written
- Concord, New Hampshire
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 21 cm, Width: 13 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Writes concerning his opinion that fighting cannot restore the Union. Comments, "Good & patriotic men have not yet reached your stand point & mine, that no faith can be reposed 'in arms for the restoration of either peace or of the States to the Unity of other days.'" States that he cannot respond to the recipient's suggestions in writing and must see him in person to do this. Notes the rising opposition to the Civil War in the North, "The woe & wailing & hopelessness which arms have brought, are telling upon the public mind at the North, as no argument could."
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