MAY 15, 1865:
Emilie Davis tells her diary:
[T]his is a busy day the
fair comences today i have bin working hard all the afternoon at the fair in
the evening.
The
Ladies Union Association (LAU) was a wartime social service organization that eventually
developed a broader social work perspective (under various iterations) during
the Progressive Era. The LAU chapter to
which Davis belonged was established to provide necessaries and small luxuries
to the men of the U.S.C.T. The Fair of which Ms. Davis speaks had been
postponed due to Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and funerals, but once begun
this day it did not end until the last day of May.
During
a Missouri guerrilla raid, Jesse James is shot through the lungs. It takes him
months to recover.
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