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  • My Great Grandfather’s Diaries
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    • The LE&E Railroad
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Diaries – The Civil War Years

  • Civil War Highlights
  • 1862 – Enlists in October and in battle for the first time
  • 1863 – In Kentucky, Mississippi, and home on furlough
  • 1864 – Samuel’s Most Intense and Active Year in the Army—
        • The “Battle of the Wilderness” in May,
        • More fighting in June
        • Sick in July and August
        • Home on furlough in September
        • Back at the front in December
  • 1865 – Lee Surrenders, Lincoln is assassinated, mustered out of the Army and home again!

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