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Identifier: reminiscencesofs00loga (find matches)
Title: Reminiscences of a soldier's wife : an autobiography
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Logan, John A., Mrs., 1838-1923
Subjects: Logan, John A., Mrs., 1838-1923 Logan, John Alexander, 1826-1886
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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Telegram from General Grant revoking his order to General Logan to relieve General Thomas i A SOLDIERS WIFE 191 bridges behind him. Halting at Goldsboro to recuperate,they heard that Petersburg had fallen and that Richmondwas in the hands of General Grant, and the attempted Con-federacy was no more. Going into camp at Raleigh, NorthCarolina, they waited for the whole army to come up, andwith the conclusion of negotiations between Sherman andJohnston Richmond was ours, and now they had nothing todo but to push on to Washington and behold a united country.While rejoicing over this happy thought, they were startledby the overwhelming news of the assassination of Mr. Lin-coln, which so exasperated the soldiery that, with the fury ofmadmen, they swore vengeance on every inhabitant of theSouth, and but for their devotion to General Logan theywould have destroyed the city of Raleigh, North Carolina,and every soul within its precincts. Hearing of the wildgrief and intense indignation of the me

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