Joseph E. Johnston surrenders at Greensboro, N. C., 1865
April Twenty-Seventh
The twilight hours, like birds, flew by,
As lightly and as free;
Ten thousand stars were in the sky,
Ten thousand in the sea;
For every wave, with dimpled face,
That leaped into the air,
Had caught a star in its embrace
And held it trembling there.
Amelia B. Welby
April Twenty-Eighth
Too much roseate nonsense has been indulged about life on the plantation or in the city in the ante-bellum days. Neither the planter nor the factor nor the lawyer led a life of idle ease and pleasure; they were workers, whose energy built up the State; they lived often rather in rude profusion than in luxury.
Pierce Butler
James Monroe born, 1758
April Twenty-Ninth
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.