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Desiree Reads is on page 52 of 480 of The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865

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

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Desiree Reads is on page 49 of 480 of The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865

Volume 3
August 2, 1861 - December 30, 1861

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Desiree Reads is on page 42 of 480 of The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865

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

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Desiree Reads is on page 27 of 480 of The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865

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

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Desiree Reads is on page 26 of 480 of The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865

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.

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Desiree Reads is on page 26 of 480 of The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865

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

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Desiree Reads is on page 25 of 480 of The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865

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

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Desiree Reads is on page 23 of 480 of The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865

What is this “savannah line of steamers”?

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Desiree Reads is on page 23 of 480 of The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865

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

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Desiree Reads is on page 17 of 480 of The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865

Volume 2
March 27, 1861 - August 1, 1861

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Desiree Reads is on page 10 of 480 of The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865

Scalybarks = hickory nuts

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Desiree Reads is on page 7 of 480 of The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865

Frechet: Flood caused by heavy rain.

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Desiree Reads is on page 6 of 480 of The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865

“Wesleyan Female College was the country’s first chartered college to award a diploma to a woman (1840).”

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Desiree Reads is starting The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865

Volume 1
June 12, 1860 - March 26, 1861

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Dramatis Personae

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A Medical Foreward

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Introduction

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Publisher’s Preface

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Desiree Reads is starting More Than Enough

Gay drop @ 7%

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Desiree Reads is starting A Cold Highland Wind (Lady Emily, #17)

Started April 27, 2026. Finished April 28, 2026.

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Desiree Reads is on page 23 of 555 of Possession: A Romance

Okay, that’s gross 🤢

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Desiree Reads is starting Possession: A Romance

2nd read started April 27, 2026.

1st read approximately Fall 2003.

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Desiree Reads is starting The Ghostwriter

Started reading April 27, 2026.

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Desiree Reads is starting Above the Waterfall

Started reading April 27, 2026.

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Desiree Reads is on page 118 of 448 of All Manner of Things

Finished reading April 26, 2026.

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Desiree Reads is starting The Season of Sinking

Approved to read by Grand Central Publishing via NetGalley on April 17, 2016.

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Desiree Reads is 31% done with When We Were Brilliant

Finished reading April 25, 2026. Review to follow.

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Desiree Reads is starting More Than Enough

Started reading April 25, 2026.

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Desiree Reads is 31% done with When We Were Brilliant

Surprisingly really absorbing!

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Desiree Reads is starting The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865

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