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“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.”
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Note on Sources
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A Medical Afterward
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Postscript
The Gresham Family after the Civil War
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Parental Grief
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Obituary
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LeRoy dies. June 18, 1865.
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Wed Dec 10th, 1865

“Vice President Stephens is arrested & thus comes down the iron screw on our powerless necks.”
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“General Johnston has surrendered his army & the Department of South Carolina, Georgia & Florida: so we are under the rod as conquered rebels forever.”
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Lee surrenders to Grant on Apr 9, 1865.
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Tue Apr 11, 1865
“The N.Y. Herald reports that the Confederacy was recognized by France on the 3d March”.
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