Status Updates From The War Outside My Window: ...

Gunboats Chicora and Palmetto State out of Charleston - two ironclad gunboats purchased by various Ladies’ societies, including Macon’s Ladies Soldiers Relief Society.

Volume 5
January 1, 1863 - December 31, 1863

Sep 22, 1862: Lincoln declares the slaves of the rebel states as free.

(Note that only the slaves in the states fighting the Union are free; Lincoln says nothing of freeing the slaves in the Union slave-holding states, such as Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri.)

“That fall (fall of 1862, almost two years into the war), Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation, which broadened the Union goals of the war to include the eradication of slavery.”

“Gen. Pope issued orders at aimed at punishing Southern civilians.”

“Plans were in place for the wealthier planters and producers of Georgia to take care of the indigent d the families of soldiers.”

Okay, it looks like the footnotes are now aligned again. Yay!

“I wish there was a Doctor that ‘could tell’ me something.”

“It is 5 years ago since I first lay down… I often wonder whether I am going to get well again.”

“No News. We are, in my opinion, being overrun. New Orleans is gone. They have attacked Cumberland Gap, [Kentucky], which will be taken of course.”

Footnotes in this section are all messed up… grr…

April 1862… poor LeRoy seems to be in great pain every day now. 😔

“I received a Norfolk paper today from Uncle John, with accts of the fight [near Newport News] in it. He witnessed the whole from Sewall’s Point. Most of our men were killed under a flag of truce while saving the crew of the sinking [Union frigate] Congress.”

“Macon was a major rail hub used to shuttle troops to various points…”

“[War] correspondents were often combatants as well as active journalists.”

Hmmm…. Page 26 listed Missouri as one of four slave-holding states that never declared secession.

On page 86, it states that Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy on Nov 28, 1861, but as little more than a symbolic gesture.

Fernandina [Fla.] mentioned

Mustard seed powder poultice on the back for nerve pain? Interesting.

Hay House!

“Lincoln has appropriated 2 million dollars for the purpose of arming the Union men in Kentucky and Tennessee.”

Volume 3
August 2, 1861 - December 30, 1861

“Confederates named battles after the nearest significant town (Manassas), and Federals after geographic features (Bull Run creek).”

“Groups like the USSanitary Commission organized in the North on a national level, but women in the South organized on their own.”

The crew of the USS Niagara, which left New York in June 1860 to return home the first Japanese diplomats to the United States were astounded when they returned to Boston in April 1861 to find the States at war.

Slave-holding states in the Union: Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware.

“Kentucky is furnishing troops for the federal government and also for the south.”

What is this “savannah line of steamers”?

I would love to know more about these fires mentioned on pages 21 and 23. Arson? Who?