Journey to Freedom: Uncovering the Grayson Sisters' Escape from Nebraska (Blankenau) CD Frank’s letters go beyond his

Frank’s letters go beyond his direct combat experiences to include the camaraderie among the GIs

and took a tearful ride from Wilmer McLean’s house at Appomattox

” wrote one officer

finds itself in the center of battle on July 2nd

Journey to Freedom: Uncovering the Grayson Sisters' Escape from Nebraska (Blankenau) CD Frank’s letters go beyond hisby Gail Shaffer Blankenau In late November of 1858 two enslaved Black womenCelia Grayson, age twenty two, and Eliza Grayson, age twentyescaped the Stephen F. Nuckolls household in southeastern Nebraska. John Williamson, a man of African American and Cherokee descent from Iowa, guided them through the dark to the Missouri River, where they boarded a skiff and crossed the icy waters, heading for their first stop on the Underground Railroad at Civil