The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865 (Janet Elizabeth Croon - DLM) Size:Young Reader Great for visiting the Gettysburg

Great for visiting the Gettysburg Battlefield

Available in Union blue

The town of Gettysburg and surrounding farms witnessed a battle and horrific aftermath in 1863

“We must strike them a blow

The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865 (Janet Elizabeth Croon - DLM) Size:Young Reader Great for visiting the GettysburgThe 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