The movie, narrated by Brian Dennehy, is based on the book Love and Valor - Intimate Civil War Letters Between Captain Jacob and Emeline Ritner, which was featured by the Smithsonian in the month after 9/11. Ritner, a Union captain from Iowa, was a teacher, farmer and abolitionist before the war.
The movie tells of their devotion to each other, patriotism, loneliness, anguish at the death of loved ones, and slavery. Em raising four small children, managing the family farm, dealing with other women in town. Jacob witnessing death of family and friends, participating in great adventure, seeing new lands, changing views on the South.
The movie is narrated by Tony Award winning actor Brian Dennehy.
Jacob and Emeline s great great grandson, Charles Larimer, also as a narrator, tells the strange stories about how he found the letters. He tells most of his stories in cemeteries by the actual graves of the people mentioned in the letters. He also tells strange stories on how he found a
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Posted: 6/4/2009
