Civil War-Era Letter Shows Confederate Lieutenant Lamenting His Brother’s Condition Of ‘Chronic Masturbation‘
An 1864 Civil War-era letter recently sold at auction was about a Confederate lieutenant lamenting his brother’s masturbation addiction. Lieutenant William Dandridge Pitts wrote to the Military Times Watch Post in a letter to the director of the “Western Madmen’s Asylum,” which housed his brother Charles, who had been discharged from the Confederate Army with […]
