Flanagan describes a community on the brink of collapse due to the ongoing American Civil War. The author notes that “times is very hard” and that the threat of starvation is drawing near.

This site exists to provide access to the “Gwinn Papers” and to preserve the family history of the descendants of Laban Gwinn. For many years Nelson Gwinn cared for these papers and later he passed them to his grandchildren. All of these stewards had hopes of finding a way to…