A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER WROTE HOW HE WISHED FOR A FRIENDLY BULLET One of the most popular songs sung by soldiers around camp fires was Home, Sweet Home. Most soldiers had never ventured away from their hearths before they were called to defend the Confederacy. A majority of enlistees who gaily marched a way to seek glory on the battlefield soon found that army life with its hardships and diseases, was neither exciting nor glorious. One Confederate wrote how he wished for a 'friendly bullet' that would hit him 'just severely enough to send him home for 60 - 90 days. I would gladly welcome such a bullet and consider the Yank who fired it as a good kind fellow.'