ISBN
9781611214505
Price
$13.99
Publisher
Savas Beatie
Abstract
This volume is a companion piece to The War Outside My Window. The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865. Invalid teenager Leroy Wiley Gresham left a seven-volume diary spanning the years of secession and the Civil War (1860-1865). He was just 12 when he began and he died at 17, just weeks after the war ended. His remarkable account, recently published as The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865, edited by Janet E. Croon (2018), spans the gamut of life events that were of interest to a precocious and well-educated Southern teenager, including military, political, religious, social, and literary matters of the day. This alone ranks it as an important contribution to our understanding of life and times in the Old South. But it is much more than that. Chronic disease and suffering stalk the young writer, who is never told he is dying until just before his death.
DOI
10.31390/cwbr.21.1.22
Recommended Citation
D'Onofrio, Peter J.
(2019)
"I Am Perhaps Dying: The Medical Backstory of Spinal Tuberculosis Hidden in the Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Grishman,"
Civil War Book Review: Vol. 21
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Iss.
1
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DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.21.1.22
Available at:
https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol21/iss1/22
