How cool! That would be really nice if you could find it. But, only if you want me to look it up. I have a feeling he is buried on the top of the hill on Lee's former property.
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How cool! That would be really nice if you could find it. But, only if you want me to look it up. I have a feeling he is buried on the top of the hill on Lee's former property.
Is that the rose garden?
The Rose Garden is at the White House and Lee's former house is within the gates of Arlington National Cemetery.
Haha oh yeah
Next rime i am back in hometown will dig out the diary, its an interesting piece of history in itself
Sounds like a plan! I bet that is an interesting piece!
Issued leather bound. Has some interesting things printed in it like population sizes of the states that existed at the time for both freemen and slave populations. Postage rates to the old world etc. he writes in it and towards the end hes just in a medical tent as he was shot at Attle of the wilderness and he eventually succumbed to the wound.
The battle was bloody and no side could claim victory, it marked the first stage of a major Union offensive toward the Confederate capital of Richmond, ordered by the newly named Union general-in-chief Ulysses S. Grant in the spring of 1864.
What a treasure you have!