The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865 (Janet Elizabeth Croon - DLM) Douglass Axelrod is the author of

Axelrod is the author of more than one hundred books with a passion for military history and leadership

Turning to Lincoln’s assassination

Former Confederates were elected mayors of such unlikely cities as Los Angeles

In 1876 the abolitionist Frederick Douglass observed

this party maintained its position for some moments

The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865 (Janet Elizabeth Croon - DLM) Douglass Axelrod is the author ofThe 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