The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865 (Janet Elizabeth Croon - DLM) Douglass Turning to Lincoln’s assassination

Turning to Lincoln’s assassination

This thoroughly researched and well-written book includes three appendices—two orders of battle and a discussion of the historic context of some of the tactics employed by the Union mounted force on September 18

and the start of the tentative peace in 1865

preservationist

In 1876 the abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed

The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865 (Janet Elizabeth Croon - DLM) Douglass Turning to Lincoln’s assassinationThe War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860 1865 edited by Janet Elizabeth Croon LeRoy Wiley Gresham was born in 1847 to an affluent slave holding family in Macon, Georgia. After a horrific leg injury left him an invalid, the educated, inquisitive, perceptive, and exceptionally witty 12 year old began keeping a diary in 1860 just as secession and the Civil War began tearing the country and his world apart. He continued