1865 ALBANY NY CIVIL WAR LETTER MEDICAL SOLDIER HOSPITAL ! CONFEDERATE SURRENDER

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4 PAGE LETTER & STAMP ENVELOPE, ALBANY NY APRIL 10TH 1865, MONTGOMERY FAMILY, TO BROTHER JJ MONTGOMERY MEDICAL CORPS, ARMORY SQUARE HOSPITAL, WASHINGTON DC. --- AMAZING CONTENT MENTIONS HOSPITAL, LECTURES, STUDY OF LAW, LECTURES BY HARRIS IN WASHINGTON DC, VERY SMART MAN, JUDGE FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, SPLENDID LAW LECTURES, LAW OF EVIDENCE, STUDENTS WHO INTEND TO GRADUATE, CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE HAS CONSENTED TO COME AND DELIVER AN ADDRESS BEFORE US, ALBANY HAS BEEN A LIVELY PLACE FOR THE LAST WEEK OVER THE GLORIOUS NEWS AND THERE WAS GREAT REJOICING, GREATER NEWS, COMD'G GEN'L OF THE WHOLE ARMIES OF THE SOUTH SHOULD BE COMPELLED AFTER LOSING THEIR CAPITOL, TO SURRENDER UNCONDITIONALLY  WITH ALL HIS ARMY TO GENERAL GRANT, THIS LIKELY MUST WIND THEM UP, NOT A POSSIBILITY OF THEM EVEN MAKING ANOTHER EFFORT WITH THEIR LEADER AND MAIN ARMY GONE, THE NEWS CAME HERE ABOUT 12 O'CLOCK SUNDAY NIGHT, AROUSED OF MY SLUMBERS BY THE FIRING OF CANNONS AND SINGING OF BELLS, EVERY BODY WAS OUT, STREETS PERFECTLY CROWDED, THE GOV WAS CALLED OUT 3 TIMES FOR A SPEECH, CELEBRATED ALL NIGHT BECAUSE LEE NEVER HAD SURRENDERED BEFORE AND PROBABLY NEVER WILL AGAIN, THIS MORNING STUDENTS DID NOT MUCH FEEL LIKE HEARING LECTURES, THEIR HEADS WERE TOO THICK FOR LAW, WE FORMED A PROCESSION OF ABOUT 100 STUDENTS & COMMENCED OUR MARCH WITH DRUMS & FIFES & FLAGS AT OUR HEAD PROCEEDED DOWN TO SENATOR HARRIS OFFICE & CALLED FOR A SPEECH, HE GAVE US A GOOD ONE, THEN WENT TO JUDGE PARKER'S & GOV. FENTON, HAD A GREAT TIME, TOMORROW WE WEILL RESUME LEGAL STUDIES, GRANT SHERMAN & SHERIDAN HAVE LIKELY PROVED THEMSELVES TO BE THE GREATEST GENERALS THE WORLD PRODUCED, ETC. --
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