LeRoy Wiley Gresham

Leroy Wiley Gresham lived Nov. 11, 1847 - June 18, 1865 in Macon, Georgia.[1] He was "a longtime invalid" following a broken leg[2] and "was often confined to a special wagon that was pulled about town by slave.".[3]

His diaries give insight on the Southern life during the American Civil War. Selections from his diary appeared in a Library of Congress exhibit, "The Civil War in America", from 2012-2013, and were reprinted in Harper's Magazine.[2] Started in June 1860, the diaries "reflect the uncertainties faced by those in the path of Sherman's army" in late 1864[4]

The son of John J. and Mary Gresham,[1][5] he is interred in Macon, Georgia in the Rose Hill Cemetery, Magnolia Section.[1] His father was "twice mayor".[2]

His mother, (née Mary Baxter 1822), is the sister of Sallie Bird;[5] thus he is briefly mentioned in correspondence kept in the Baxter-Bird-Smith Family Papers of the University of Georgia Libraries.[6]

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  1. 1 2 3 USGenWeb Archives USGenWeb Archives, Rose Hill Cemetery Magnolia Section
  2. 1 2 3 Southern Discomfort by LeRoy Wiley Gresham, April 2013, Harper's Magazine
  3. ↑ Invalid boy’s diary focus of Library of Congress Civil War exhibit. The Washington Post. By Michael E. Ruane, November 08, 2012
  4. ↑ Finding Aid, Lewis H. Machen Family, A Register of Its Papers in the Library of Congress. Prepared by John McDonough and David Mathisen & Revised by Patrick Kerwin. Latest revision: 2004-10-21. Catalog record permalink: http://lccn.loc.gov/mm77086777
  5. 1 2 page (xxxvi), John Rozier, ed., The Granite Farm Letters: The Civil War Correspondence of Edgeworth and Sallie Bird (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988).
  6. ↑ (e.g. "Bud is writing to Cousin Leroy" page 10; see footnote page 28, John Rozier, ed., The Granite Farm Letters: The Civil War Correspondence of Edgeworth and Sallie Bird (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988).

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