"The Letter from Home"
a Maquette-sized Bronze Civil War Sculpture Allegory
by James Muir Bronze Allegorical Sculptor-Artist

“The Letter from Home”

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.”