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

The Union soldiers hung a black servant/slave at Cousin Jinnie Blount’s place in Jones County, Georgia for “insubordination “.

“(W)e hear the cannon firing.”

The fighting reaches Macon and Union General Stoneman shells the city before retreating.

The Lincoln administration suspended prisoner exchanges on July 30, 1863. This burdened the South with tens of thousands of men it o properly feed, clothe, or otherwise care for. (And showing Lincoln didn’t really care about the Union soldiers?)

March 1864: The Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid, Richmond, VA, was a failed attempt by Union General Judson Kiloatrick and Colonel Ulric Dahlgren to get into Richmond and free Union prisoners there.

Dahlgren was killed, and papers found on his body indicated another purpose of the raid was to burn the city and assassinate JeffersonDavis and his cabinet.

Volume 6
January 1, 1864 - January 8, 1865

Nov 26, 1863: Bragg dispatches that we have had a struggle for Lookout Mountain at Chattanooga. “The enemy have taken Lookout”.

May 1863. LeRoy is 16 years old. He weighs just 63 lbs.

Lookout Mountain

“A demand was made for Sumter. General B[eauregard] replied come and take it.”