The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865 (Janet Elizabeth Croon - DLM) Size:Young Reader Bennett Place

Bennett Place

As the surrenders unfolded

There would be no single surrender or treaty that brought the war to an end

Civilians and soldiers

a long-anticipated military order arrived on the desk of Massachusetts Governor John Andrew

The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865 (Janet Elizabeth Croon - DLM) Size:Young Reader Bennett PlaceThe War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860 1865 edited by Janet Elizabeth Croon LeRoy Wiley Gresham was born in 1847 to an affluent slave holding family in Macon, Georgia. After a horrific leg injury left him an invalid, the educated, inquisitive, perceptive, and exceptionally witty 12 year old began keeping a diary in 1860 just as secession and the Civil War began tearing the country and his world apart. He continued