During the American Civil War the Wabash Intelligencer and the Wabash Plain Dealer frequently published letters from local soldiers serving in the Union Army. In A Leaf of Voices Jennifer McSpadden has compiled the letters into a volume that gives fascinating insights into a bygone age. The letter writers are a remarkable cast of characters: young and old, soldiers, doctors, ministers, officers, enlisted men, newspaper men, and a fifteen-year old printers'devil who enlisted as a drummer boy.