Whose Father Was He?

I have been riveted by Errol Morris's blog - the five installments about Amos Humiston, Civil War soldier who died holding an ambrotype of his children; the man who found it; what happened after; and how the story is being told now. Start with part one! The juiciest bits come from the post-war orphanage.

From a letter to his wife during the war:

January 2, 1863: “If I ever live to get home you will not complain of being lonesome again or of sleeping cold for I will lay as close to you as the bark to a tree.”