Dear Sister is the tenth studio album from bluegrass musician Claire Lynch.

[2] The track, "Dear Sister", won the 2014 International Bluegrass Music Association award for Song of the Year.

[4] The sister detailed in the book is an ancestor of author Chappel.

[4] Album co-writer Louisa Branscomb also has a connection similar to that of Chappel.

Branscomb has a great-great aunt who had four brothers in the civil war, all of whom wrote letters to her which she saved after being found in the 20th Century.