Desiree Reads’s Reviews > The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865 > Status Update

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.”

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.”