After the surrender of Confederate armies, prisoner-of-war Edmund R. Cocke swears allegiance to the United States and is released on parole. He moves back to Oakland, his family’s plantation, where he lives for the next sixty years.
After the surrender of Confederate armies, prisoner-of-war Edmund R. Cocke swears allegiance to the United States and is released on parole. He moves back to Oakland, his family’s plantation, where he lives for the next sixty years.
