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"...The occupation of Chapel Hill [NC] by Union troops lasted for seventeen days, from April 17th until May 3rd [1865]...Assuring Gov. Swain and others that citizens would be treated with courtesy...[Gen. William T.] Sherman also presented a horse to Gov. Swain, a gift that earned him local resentment because people assumed that it had been stolen from some southern family on Sherman's route to North Carolina..." -- Lindemann, Erika, True and Candid Compositions: The Lives and Writings of Antebellum Students at the University of North Carolina, Chapter 6. "...On August 11, 1868, he [Gov. Swain] was thrown from a buggy pulled by a horse that General Sherman had given him. Though confined to bed due to shock and weakness, Swain appeared to be recovering, but he succumbed to his injuries on August 27..." -- Wikipedia: David L. Swain. #sec026 #civilwar #south #confederacy #chapelhillnc #ncgovernorswain #genwilliamtsherman #swain #sherman