ALMOST EVERY SOUTHERN SOLDIER SPOKE OF THEIR HOMESICK SENTIMENTS During the War for Southern Independence, soldiers experienced a variety of sentiments concerning their military service. It gave them periods of delight on ocasion and it also drug them through the depths of depression too. Many of the Confederate soldiers had not been far from home when they began to realize how homesick they had be come. One Alabama soldier wrote home and made mention of "I am heaire and my minds wit you at home." Another soldier from Virginia wrote about what he was feeling when he said, "Shut out from the world I'm hid so fer away in a pine thicket. We have nothing to think of but some of the loved ones at home."