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Note on Sources

A Medical Afterward

Postscript
The Gresham Family after the Civil War

Addendum:
Parental Grief

Obituary

LeRoy dies. June 18, 1865.

Wed Dec 10th, 1865

“Vice President Stephens is arrested & thus comes down the iron screw on our powerless necks.”

“General Johnston has surrendered his army & the Department of South Carolina, Georgia & Florida: so we are under the rod as conquered rebels forever.”

Lee surrenders to Grant on Apr 9, 1865.

Tue Apr 11, 1865
“The N.Y. Herald reports that the Confederacy was recognized by France on the 3d March”.

Thu Apr 6th:

“On Sunday the evacuation commenced and only the Gov. officials got out… The VA State archives are lost. After the evacuation the mobs began to plunder the stores.”

“This commission was sent in good faith and we were willing to give… everything except the only thing they wanted: unconditional submission.”

Tue Feb 7th:
“Our commissioners have returned. Lincoln + Seward met with them and offered terms, viz: unconditional surrender…”

Dec 31, 1864

“We began the summer bright and hopeful and end the year sorrowing for the men who have been lost who can never be recovered.”

“Sherman has issued orders allowing ingress and egress for 20 days from Savannah and all those who remain after that time will be compelled to take the oath of allegiance to the U.S.”

(Meaning their belongings are reduced to only what they can haul or carry with them - losing their homes, their businesses., their farms.)

^^^ Mon Dec 26, 1864.

“Sherman has taken Savannah and has the states of Georgia and South Carolina at his command.”

Tue Dec 20, 1964: Fort McAllister has fallen and Savannah is in a most critical state.

“Sunday December 11th 1864: “We are fighting no longer for Independence but terms” Father says.”

“The raider CSS was illegally captured by a Union officer in Brazil on Oct 7, 1864, and turned over to the Union navy. Brazil, whose territorial rights had been violated, demanded the ship be returned. On Nov. 28, 1864… the Florida mysteriously sank after being struck by a Union transport ship.”

The Union soldiers hung a black servant/slave at Cousin Jinnie Blount’s place in Jones County, Georgia for “insubordination “.

“(W)e hear the cannon firing.”

The fighting reaches Macon and Union General Stoneman shells the city before retreating.

The Lincoln administration suspended prisoner exchanges on July 30, 1863. This burdened the South with tens of thousands of men it o properly feed, clothe, or otherwise care for. (And showing Lincoln didn’t really care about the Union soldiers?)

March 1864: The Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid, Richmond, VA, was a failed attempt by Union General Judson Kiloatrick and Colonel Ulric Dahlgren to get into Richmond and free Union prisoners there.

Dahlgren was killed, and papers found on his body indicated another purpose of the raid was to burn the city and assassinate JeffersonDavis and his cabinet.

Feb 29, 1864. Battle of Olustee aka Battle of Ocean Pond near Lake City, Florida. Largest fight of the war between the states on Florida soul.

Volume 6
January 1, 1864 - January 8, 1865

Nov 26, 1863: Bragg dispatches that we have had a struggle for Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga. “The enemy have taken Lookout”.