Letter From Home a maquette-sized Bronze Civil War Sculpture Allegory by James Muir Bronze Allegorical Sculptor-Artist
"Letter From Home"
19" H
edition 30
Click Here to view life-size version for The Pearce Western Art Collection at Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas-Installation Spring 2002)
Depicts emotions of longing felt by soldiers on many battlefields in many wars
During a lull in the battle, this young Confederate soldier, with Boyle, Gamble and MacFee sabre bayonet fixed on his "Mississippi" rifle ready for the next charge, takes a few precious moments--possibly his last--to read for perhaps the hundredth time the "Letter from Home."