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FH Documents and Artefacts / Re: Civil War Confederate Journal
« on: Sunday 02 September 12 18:26 BST (UK) »
That may also be true. I'm attempting to date it based off what he does talk about in it, because it is all in the past tense. Near the end he says "longer than three years of the third decade ending in 1868 did it take to restore to the white men the ballot and lift from their necks the yoke of their former slaves". So, I know he wrote this sometime after 1868. It may be possible that he either handwrote it and it was typed later, but after reconstruction ended I know he started his own newspaper in Independence Missouri, so he may have been able to get his hands on a typewriter through that, in which case this would have been written sometime after the war.