Monday, May 13, 2019

Diary of Captain Luman Harris Tenney: April 17, 1865

Rode all night with paroled prisoners — Yankees. Cold. Reached City Point at 8 A. M. Got ready to leave on the mail boat at 10 A. M. Boat loaded mostly with Southern officers and a few Yankees, few citizens. Saw a telegraph operator with whom I was acquainted in Tenn. Read late papers. Accounts of the assassination. A little seasick. Most of the rebels seem submissive and willing to come under the old flag again.

SOURCE: Frances Andrews Tenney, War Diary Of Luman Harris Tenney, p. 161

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