Secesh (@Secesh)

"...The occupation of Chapel Hill [NC] by Union troops lasted for seventeen days, from April 17th until May 3rd [1865]... Some of the officers were quartered in University dormitories, and cavalry horses were stabled in University buildings and grazed under the oaks on campus... [Gen. William T.] Sherman commended his officer's mounts for being among the best educated horses in the Union army because they spent so much time in the University's library... -- Lindemann, Erika, True and Candid Compositions: The Lives and Writings of Antebellum Students at the University of North Carolina, Chapter 6. #sec027 #civilwar #south #confederacy #chapelhillnc #genwilliamtsherman #sherman #horses #cavalry