From the August 23, 2014, Tri-Cities.com, AP.
Randal McGavock, one-time mayor of Nashville, wrote a diary during the war and it has been returned now after 152 years. It was found by a Union captain when they captured Fort Henry in 1862.
It was found in Cincinnati by retired teacher Andrea Sheam while helping her parents move into an assisted living facility. Her parents told her that her grandmother had placed it in a wooden box in 1963.
The inscription on the diary said that it was captured by Captain Myndert Wemple of the 4th Illinois Volunteer cavalry on February 6, 1862. Sheam's research show that Wemple was an ancestor and the diary was passed down through the generations for the next hundred years before it was forgotten.
A Piece of History Recovered. --Old Secesh
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