RE: Memorial Day, Day is Done

[scubahead]

Next rime i am back in hometown will dig out the diary, its an interesting piece of history in itself

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[dswigle]

Sounds like a plan! I bet that is an interesting piece!

[scubahead]

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.

[dswigle]

The Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5–7, 1864, was the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's and General George G. Meade's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War.

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!