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Mother is making soap, a very labor intensive process.
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Nov 26, 1863: Bragg dispatches that we have had a struggle for Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga. “The enemy have taken Lookout”.
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May 1863. LeRoy is 16 years old. He weighs just 63 lbs.
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“A demand was made for Sumter. General B[eauregard] replied come and take it.”
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New York City Draft Riots (July 1863). Many of the rioters were Irish fearing competition for work from newly freed blacks who did not have to register for the (Union) draft.
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Gunboats Chicora and Palmetto State out of Charleston - two ironclad gunboats purchased by various Ladies’ societies, including Macon’s Ladies Soldiers Relief Society.
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Volume 5
January 1, 1863 - December 31, 1863
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January 1, 1863 - December 31, 1863
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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.)
— May 04, 2026 05:01PM
(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.)
