I AM PERHAPS DYING: The Medical Backstory of Spinal Tuberculosis Hidden in the Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham

An invalid teenager, LeRoy Wiley Gresham was born into a slave-holding Georgia family in 1847, and when he was just 12 years old began writing his diary in 1860, and was 17 when he died just weeks after the Civil War ended. This remarkable account offers an inside look at a fateful journey that robbed an energetic and kind boy of his youth and life. Illus.