Here’s that clip from the Ken Burns documentary, The Civil War. UPDATE: Sorry, the video portion has been removed, but at least we have the audio.
Note that the film used an abbreviated version of the letter. The last line of the full letter appears on Ballou’s monument in Swan Point Cemetery in Providence, RI.
Photo from this site.
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