GDG- Down and Out in Sangamon County

[Dennis Lawrence]

Saturday, February 21, 1835.
Springfield, IL.

Deputy Sheriff Josiah Francis, on behalf of Sangamon County Sheriff Garret 
Elkin, endorses a writ of execution: "Levied February 21st 1835 on one set 
of surveying instruments, one horse saddle and Bridle and the undivided 
half of Lots no. 16 & 17 north of Main Street New Salem the property of 
Abraham Lincoln." The execution is to pay a $223.24 judgment against 
Lincoln, William F. Berry and William Green in Van Bergen v. Lincoln et al.


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February 21, 1865.

Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg gets a bad rap from most historians, and in 
most cases this condemnation and loathing is entirely deserved. Today, 
though, one is hard pressed to see what else he could have done but 
retreat, yet again, this time from Wilmington, North Carolina. In front of 
him were the Union troops under overall command of Gen. William T. Sherman, 
who had been marching pretty much unimpeded through the heart of the 
southern Confederacy for weeks now. Bragg was the one supposed to be doing 
the impeding, but his few remaining troops stood no chance whatsoever in 
pitched battle. To save them, Bragg retreated again today, ordering the 
destruction of those supplies that could not be carried.

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