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Reminiscences- Selected passages from
letters and files of the 1st North Carolina Infantry Regiment (1861
May-Nov.). |
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This 110-page book about the 30th Wisconsin
Infantry lists all field and staff officers, sergeants, corporals, musicians,
wagoners and privates of Companies A-K, including when and where they
enlisted. The men of this regiment hailed from the Chippewa Valley, Saint
Croix, Waukesha and Iowa counties. It includes only a a brief one-page
history of the regiment’s duties, such as guarding the transports in the
'Indian Expedition' in the upper Missouri River. |
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A
Prisoner at Camp Ford - Life and incidents at that Texas Prison. From the
National Tribune, 1910. |
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Alonzo. J. Thompson, a native of Newport,
Herkimer County, New York, was a soldier in the American Civil War and served
as a part of Battery H, 1st Ohio Light Artillery, Army of the Potomac. The
diary is an account of a soldier's daily life from 1861 to 1863, and includes
a list of generals under which Thompson's unit served; hand-drawn sketches of
rivers, construction supports, surveys, and artillery trajectory, with
corresponding calculations; and daily notations concerning weather,
activities, and personal health. |
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This is the unsigned diary of A. Thompson concerning
movements from Chattanooga, Tenn., to Atlanta, Ga., May 4-Sept. 8, 1864.
Thompson served in the 44th New York Infantry during the Civil War. |
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Rambling Recollections- An Autobiography,
1920. |
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This diary, written between December 15,
1861 and March 19, 1862, records the experience of A.H. Lewis of Saline
County, Missouri as a Confederate soldier and prisoner of war. Lewis’s
company of Missouri State Guards was captured by Col. Davis in the Battle of
Backwater River on December 19, 1861. After being held for several weeks at
the St. Louis military prison, the Confederate prisoners were moved to the
penitentiary at Alton, Illinois. Although Lewis initially criticized
prisoners who took an Oath of Loyalty to the Federal government to gain
freedom, Lewis took the Oath himself on March 14, 1862 and was released. |
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Primarily letters written by A.J. McRoberts
to his wife Mollie during the Civil War, and her replies. McRoberts was a
Union sympathizer living in Saline County, MO. His wife had returned to her
family in Ohio. They describe conditions in their respective locales. Other
letters discuss family affairs. |
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Memoirs of Robert E. Lee His Military and
Personal History, 1886. Embracing A Large Amount Of Information Hitherto
Unpublished By A. L. Long Former Military Secretary To Gen. Lee, Afterward
Brig.-Gen. And Chief of Artillery Second Corps, Army Of Northern Virginia,
Together With Incidents Relating To His Private Life Subsequent To The War. |
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Reminiscences of the Civil War by a
Confederate Staff Officer. |
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From Sail to Steam; Recollections of Naval
Life (1907). |
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The Camden Expedition – A narrative of the advance
of General Steele in the Spring of 1864. |
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From the Atlantic to the Pacific;
reminiscences of pioneer life and travels across the continent, from New England
to the Pacific ocean, by an old soldier. Also a graphic account of his army
experiences in the Civil war. |
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Aaron Pugh letters, 1863-1864. Letters
written from near Waverly, Tennessee describing enemy attacks, camp life and
activities, and his impressions of the state; includes a letter from Eli
Keeler telling of Pugh’s capture; and two printed documents concerning Pugh
as Enrolling Officer for Marcy Township, Boone County, Iowa. |
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This is the diary of A. S. Oberly who
served on five military vessels during the Civil War. |
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Abbie M. Brooks diaries and church
invitation, 1858-1870. This collection contains two diaries of Abigail M.
Brooks, which date from 1865 and 1870 along with typed transcriptions of
both. In addition, there is an invitation to attend church which dates from
1858. In the 1865 diary, Brooks describes life in rural Tennessee, near
Nashville, where she teaches in a one room school house. Later in the year,
Abigail moves to Edgefield, Tennessee, also near Nashville, and starts her
own school. She describes life in Edgefield, trials with her students, the
smoking stove, and parents who don't pay tuition. She also describes trips to
Nashville to shop, take music lessons, and visit with friends. In April 1865,
she mentions the fall of Richmond, General Robert E. Lee's surrender, President
Lincoln's assassination. She describes meeting soldiers who were traveling
home from war and learning about their war experiences. In the 1870 diary,
Brooks describes the cities of Edgefield, Nashville, Atlanta, Madison,
Augusta, and Savannah. Her diary gives insight into the Presbyterian Churches
that Abigail attended while living in these cities. She describes the
services, the ministers and church buildings. Many of the entries review her
efforts to make a living selling books, religious prints, maps, or pictures
of Robert E. Lee, both door-to-door and in local factories or offices. She
mentions many local businessmen and their wives and sometimes comments on
race relations, travel, city conditions and the hardships she encountered as
a single woman trying to make a living in the post-Civil War South. |
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Reminiscences- Abel Peterson Rhyne, 49th
North Carolina Infantry, Company H. |
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Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie
in 1860-'61 (1876) |
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The Sixteenth Maine Regiment in the War of
the Rebellion, 1861-1865 / by Major A. R Small. With an introduction written
by Gen. James A. Hall. In the form of a diary, with biographies and
statistical tables appended. |
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Abraham
Howbert - Reminiscences of the war (1888) |
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Abram Rinker diaries, 1863-1864. The
collection consists of two Civil War diaries of Abram Rinker written during his
service with Company B of the 52nd Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers from
May 1863 - December 1864. Rinker was stationed in North and South Carolina
including Beauford, Morris, James, and Folly Islands (S.C.) and Ft. Strong
(N.C.). Entries discuss Rinker's health; the weather; camp life - drills,
guard duty, foraging for food, and officers; bombardments and shelling along
the coast; and ship movements - including battles involving the
"ironsides." Other entries pertain to the execution of a deserter, new
conscripts in the unit, the arrival of Confederate prisoners, news of battles
in other states, particularly the taking of Atlanta, election results in the
North, both local and national. Rinker was apparently mustered out in October
1864 since the final entries pertain to life at home and visits with
relatives.. |
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Reminiscences of Winfield Scott Hancock,
1887. |
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Virginia Clay-Clopton - A belle of
the fifties; memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, covering social and political
life in Washington and the South, 1853-1866. Put into narrative form by Ada
Sterling (1905) |
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Grant in peace. From Appomattox to Mount McGregor.
A personal memoir (1887) |
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Adam
Gurowski,. Diary- March 4, 1861 to November 12, 1862, Vol. 1 (1862) Adam
Gurowski,. Diary- November 18, 1862 to October 18, 1863, Vol. 2 (1862) |
His keen political mind and devotion to the
abolitionist movement, as stated in his Slavery in History (1860), led de
Gurowski to Washington D.C. Once there, he supported the Union war effort by
translating articles in foreign newspapers for the Secretary of State. The
publication of his Diary (1862), however, caused a break with the
administration due to his frank criticism of Lincoln, Seward, and other
military officials’ mismanagement of the war. He advocated the organization
of a troop of African-American soldiers and offered suggestions for its
formation. |
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This collection consists of one diary kept
by Adam H. Pickel during the American Civil War, 13 August 1862-8 July 1863,
about camp life, troop movements, the weather, prisoners of war, the Battle
of Fredericksburg, the Battle of Gettysburg, and the battlefield shot which
led to his death. Also includes a handwritten transcription by his grandson
of the first three months of the diary, two clippings (obituary of Pickel's
daughter Mary Ann, and 1904 notice that her and her father's remains were
moved from the Methodist churchyard to Morris Cemetery, Phoenixville,
Pennsylvania), a two-page handwritten short history of the 68th Pennsylvania
Infantry, and a bullet (photographed and scanned) removed from his body. |
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Letters to his parents describing camp life
in the Union Army, chiefly in western campaigns in Mississippi. In June 1864
he was in a hospital in Huntsville, Alabama, but was soon moved to Nashville,
Tenn.'s Cumberland Hospital. He was later sent to Resaca, Georgia and later
transferred to the Army of the Potomac occupying Petersburg, Virginia. His
regiment was later shipped to Louisville, Kentucky, where he remained until
July 1865. Brown wrote about encountering captured Confederate soldiers as
well as his travels and experiences as an officer. |
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The Soldier Boy's Diary Book; or,
Memorandums of the alphabetical first lessons of military tactics. Kept by
Adam S. Johnston, from September 14, 1861, to October 2, 1864 (1866) |
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Addie Tripp was a single woman, perhaps a
domestic servant, who lived with the William Johnson family of Onalaska,
Wisconsin, during the Civil War. Her diary describes her daily household
tasks for the family and community life during the war. Although the war
continued unabated, Tripp's diary is notable for the absence of references to
it, revealing its relatively minor impact on a working class woman's daily
life. |
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Dr. Addison A. Bell was born in Elbert
County, Georgia. He was educated at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia
and later completed post-graduate work at the New York Medical University.
During the Civil War he acted as surgeon in the Confederate hospital in
Augusta. |
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War-Time Sketches, Historical and
Otherwise, 1911. Written by Mrs. Dimitry while Historian of the
"Stonewall Jackson Chapter" of New Orleans, were intended not
solely to amuse and interest, but primarily to set forth in correct form
historic events of the war of 1861-'65, and further to preserve and hand down
to an interested posterity incidents semi-biographical which otherwise would
have passed into oblivion. The author has derived her data not alone from
written history, but largely from the lips of those who were participants in
that memorable struggle—men who had been comrades of Mumford, confreres of
Benjamin, and survivors of the ill-fated Louisiana. |
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Reminiscences of an army nurse during the
civil war (1911). |
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Civil War diary of Albert Cross, 1862. |
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War
reminiscences Albert F.R. Arndt, (Major, 1st Michigan Artillery), Facts and
reminiscences of the War of the Rebellion of 1861-65. |
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Recollections of War Times; Reminiscences
of Men and Events in Washington , 1860-1865 (1895). Author was a member of
Congress from 1861-65 and was almost continuously in Washington thereafter.
He writes from a Republican standpoint of the war measures, early
reconstruction, the election of 1864, and of Lincoln's death. The retreat
from the first battle of Bull Run is graphically described. |
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War anecdotes and incidents of army life.
Reminiscences from both sides of the conflict between North and South (1888). |
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Roster and statistical record of Company D,
of the Eleventh regiment Maine infantry volunteers, with a sketch of its
services in the war of the rebellion (1890). |
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Diary, 1861-1862. The collection is a typed
transcription of the diary of Albert Moses Luria while he was serving as a
lieutenant in the 23rd North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate States
of America, 19 August 1861-13 February 1862. The diary includes a description
of the battle of Manassas Junction (First Battle of Bull Run) with an
official list of casualties and an account of an engagement near Union Mills,
Va. |
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This is the Civil War diary of Albert Underwood
of Annapolis, Park County, Indiana. He was a member of the 9th Indiana Light
Artillery. It covers the period of the war from January 1, 1864 thru January
11, 1865. It is a very different account than the one we read in the history
books. It tells what the war was like to a young man from Indiana as he moved
around the country with his unit. It is so personal, at times you might
imagine Albert Underwood is sitting across the table from you telling you his
story. A private in the 9th Battery Indiana Light Artillery, Underwood writes
in his diary from January 1 through December 31, 1864. He records his
activities in camp, the company's travels on steamboats, and the skirmishes
and battles in which he fought in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Missouri during
the Civil War. He was killed in early 1865, along with most of his unit, when
the steamer Eclipse exploded near Paducah, Kentucky. |
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Reminiscences of the late war (1881). |
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Civil War subjects include Confederate and
Federal prisoners; sieges of Charleston, Savannah, and Wilmington; battles of
Bull Run and Antietam; women's care for wounded Confederate soldiers; and
Confederate Army concerns such as sickness, casualties, hardships, shortages,
food, shoes, clothing, desertions, troop movements, and recruitment. |
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Experience of a Confederate Chaplain,
1861-1864. From Documenting the American South. |
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Clark, Olynthus B., ed. Downing’s Civil War Diary, 1916. Sergeant
Alexander G. Downing, Company E, Eleventh Iowa Infantry, Third Brigade,
"Crocker's Brigade," Sixth Division of the Seventeenth Corps, Army of
the Tennessee. August 15, 1861- July 31, 1865. |
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Alexander E. Steen, Papers,
1861-1862. Correspondence of Confederate brigadier general of the 5th
Division, Missouri State Guard, concerning a military engagement near Fort
Scott, September 1, 1861; John E. Pitt's attempt to organize troops in the
5th Military District; and the discharge of soldiers. |
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Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens; his
diary kept when a prisoner at Fort Warren, Boston Harbour, 1865; giving
incidents and reflections of his prison life and some letters and
reminiscences. Ed., with a biographical study, by Myrta Lockett Avary. |
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Out of the Briars- An Autobiography and
Sketch of the Twenty-ninth Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, 1910. |
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This is the diary of Alexander S. Millard
who served with the 26th Mew York Independent Light Artillery Battery during
the Civil War. The diary covers January 1 to November 29, 1865 and includes
daily entries from military camps near Mobile, Alabama and Brownsville,
Texas. Millard offers a brief description of the Union Army siege of Spanish
Fort and Fort Blakely (Alabama). |
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A narrative of the leading incidents of the
organization of the first popular movement in Virginia in 1865 to reestablish
peaceful relations between the Northern and Southern States, and of the
subsequent efforts of the "Committee of Nine," in 1869, to secure
the restoration of Virginia |
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Brief History of the Ninety-third Regiment
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Recollections of a Private, 1898. |
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Alfred Dexter Morgan was a Sergeant in Company D
of the 17th Illinois Cavalry, which formed in St. Charles, Illinois. Morgan
noted that he sent home money from Illinois, Missouri and Kansas while in
service. In early January of 1865, the 17th Illinois Cavalry were in Rolla,
Missouri, but they moved to Pilot Knob, Missouri, just prior to General M.
Jefferson Thompson's surrender of 7,000 men at Chalk Bluff, Missouri.
Afterwards, the 17th left for Kansas City, Missouri, where they stayed until
ordered to Fort Scott, Kansas, on June 1st. For June, July and August of
1865, Morgan and the 17th Illinois Cavalry balanced there time between Ft.
Scott, Kansas, Balltown, Missouri, and Fort Barnesville, Missouri. In early
September, they were ordered to Fort Larned, Kansas, where they remained
through November, loading supply wagon trains while the Kiowa Indians traded
at the Fort. Morgan was angry about being stationed in what he believed was
the heart of secessionism; Kansas. At the end of November, the 17th Illinois
Cavalry left for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, camping in heavy snow and killing
many buffalo along the way. By the time they arrived at Fort Leavenworth in
December, Morgan's health had deteriorated and he was put in the hospital.
Company D of the 17th Illinois Cavalry mustered out on December 20, 1865, and
Morgan was discharged on the 27th, at Camp Butler, Illinois. The remainder of
the diary consists of the names and hometowns of the men in Company D and
some from Company B of the 17th Illinois Cavalry. Morgan noted that some were
deceased and others deserted. |
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Alfred
G. Ryder – Letterbooks of Ryder Civil War letters Vol 1 Alfred
G. Ryder – Letterbooks of Ryder Civil War letters Vol 2 Alfred
G. Ryder – Letterbooks of Ryder Civil War letters Vol 3 Alfred
G. Ryder – Diary, September 1861-July 1863 Alfred
G. Ryder – Correspondence, Miscellaneous, 1861-1864 Alfred
G. Ryder – Correspondence,
January-June 1862 Alfred
G. Ryder – Correspondence, September-December 1861 Alfred
G. Ryder – Correspondence, July-December 1862 Alfred
G. Ryder – Correspondence, January-July 1863 Alfred
G. Ryder – Correspondence, November 1861-March 1862 Alfred
G. Ryder – Correspondence, August-December 1862 Alfred
G. Ryder – Correspondence, January-March 1863 Alfred G. Ryder – Correspondence, April-July
1863 Alfred
G. Ryder –Transcripts of Civil War letters, 1861-1864 Alfred
G. Ryder –Transcripts of Civil War letters, 1862-1864 Alfred
G. Ryder –Transcripts of Civil War letters, 1862-1863 |
Civil
War correspondence and diary of Alfred G. Ryder, Co. H, First Michigan
Cavalry, and correspondence of John E. Ryder, Co. C, Twenty-forth Michigan
Infantry, including mention of the battle of Gettysburg. Accumulated and
compiled by Raymond A. Ryder, Sr., 1861-1863. |
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Letters from the Army of the Potomac -
written during the month of May, 1864, to several of the supply
correspondents of the U.S. Sanitary Commission (1864). |
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The Army of the Potomac. Behind the scenes.
A diary of unwritten history; from the organization of the army to the close
of the campaign in Virginia. by Castleman, Alfred L. (Alfred Lewis),
1809-1877. Published 1863 |
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Civil War diary of Alfred Mantor, a
corporal (and later sergeant) with C Company of the 27th Massachusetts
Infantry. Mantor's diary covers January through April of 1864, shortly before
he was killed in action in May. Entries focus on his regiment's activities,
as well as his personal experiences teaching Sunday school in the Norfolk,
Virginia, area. Alfred L. Mantor, originally a farmer from Hawley, MA,
enlisted when he was 25 years old as a Corporal to C Company of the 27th
Massachusetts Infantry on September 25, 1861. Mantor was promoted to Sergeant
on September 8, 1863. Mantor was killed in action on May 7, 1864 at Port
Walthall Junction, VA. |
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Interesting narrative- being a journal of
the flight of Alfred E. Mathews, of Stark Co., Ohio, from the state of Texas,
on the 20th of April, and his arrival at Chicago on the 28th of May, 1861. |
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A
pocket diary of the daily calendar type, kept by Lt. Alfred Moore during his
service in Co. I, 11th Virginia Cavalry. Moore (b. c1836) was a farmer from
Fairfax County, Virginia; he joined the Confederate army in 1861 and served
for the duration of the war, in three Virginia cavalry regiments. |
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The Ninth New York heavy artillery : a
history of its organization, services in the defenses of Washington, marches,
camps, battles, and muster-out ... and a complete roster of the
regiment. |
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This small, leather-bound volume is the
36-page diary kept by schoolgirl Alice Williamson at Gallatin, Tennessee from
February to September 1864. The main topic of the diary is the occupation of
Gallatin and the surrounding region by Union forces under General Eleazer A.
Paine. The diary relates many atrocities attributed to Paine. Frequently
mentioned is presence of black contrabands in and around Gallatin, attempts
to give them formal schooling, and their abuse by Union Eastern Tennessee
troops. Alice Williamson is bitterly resentful of the Union occupation. The
diarist mirrors the abandonment felt by many Confederate sympathizers in
Gallatin. She notes the presence of rebel troops in the region, mentions the
massacre at Fort Pillow, the death of Confederate raider John Hunt Morgan,
and Atlanta's surrender to Sherman. The diary lacks details of daily life.
The schoolroom and occasional visits are the only other major concerns of the
diarist. |
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Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by
Distinguished Men of His Time by Various Authors, 1888. Edited By Allen
Thorndike Rice. |
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Unique for its clarity and detail, Hodges's
diary offers a rich narrative of his nine months of service in the Union
Army. Hodges began his dairy in September of 1862, while undergoing basic
training at Camp Meigs in Readville, Mass., ten miles south of Boston. By
early November Hodges and the 44th Regiment had been transported New Bern,
N.C., a position held by Union forces since Mar. of 1862. |
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Beginning of the march from Atlanta to the
sea : a diary by Alonzo B. Lothrop and Frank B. Lothrop, with a letter
written by Joseph Nelson. This pamphlet contains two primary historical
accounts of the experiences of the 25th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during
General Sherman's Savannah campaign. One part of the pamphlet is a transcript
of a diary kept by Alonzo H. Lothrop and Frank B. Lothrop during Sherman's
March to the Sea. The diary ranges from November 15th to 23rd. The additional
section of the pamphlet is a letter written by Corporal J. Nelson to his
sister. The letter is dated May 31st 1864. |
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Alonzo
C. Ide diary, 1864 (transcript) |
Handwritten Civil War diary, soft cover,
pocket sized, scanned and transcribed . |
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Reminiscences and Record of the 6th New
York Veteran Volunteer Cavalry, 1892. |
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Alonzo Miller Civil War papers, 1864 –
1865. The collection consists of typed transcripts of Private Miller's daily
diary and letters to his family during his time as a soldier. The letters and
diary chronicles the 12th regiment's march from Wisconsin through Tennessee
and Alabama and into Georgia. His papers provide detailed descriptions of the
towns and countryside through which he travelled and include observations on
the daily activities of soldiers, such as training and foraging, as well as
comments on the weather and the general health of himself and his fellow
troops. Miller described battles and skirmishes his brigade fought on its way
to Atlanta. He describes the action of the Battle of Atlanta, and the
subsequent march to Savannah, through the Carolinas, and into Washington,
D.C., where he was part of the Grand Review of the Armies on May 24, 1865. He
makes mention of the presidential election of November, 1864 and the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln in April, 1865. Miller's diary also
chronicles his frustration over constraints on his mobility while in
Washington and his train ride home to Wisconsin after the war ended. |
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Contains brief daily entries regarding the
affairs of the 32nd Missouri Infantry, including camp activities at Camp
Proclamation, Ala. (January to May 1864); regimental affairs during the
Atlanta campaign (May to September 1864), including brief accounts of
battles; and mentions of guerrilla warfare in Dent County, Mo. (November to
December 1864). |
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Writings on family, slaves and Civil War
[fragment], circa late 19th-early 20th centuries. |
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The diary of Alva Cleveland, a 57-year-old
soldier who served as an orderly with the 1st Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry. The
diary covers March to July 1862 while Cleveland's regiment was stationed
around Nashville, Tennessee, and in northern Alabama. In the back pocket of
the diary are several sewing needles and a lock of brown hair. The diary does
not indentify whose hair it is. Cleveland writes that he and George enlisted
to 'take up arms in defense of that liberty that our fathers fought to
Establish (sic).' Due to his position as orderly, however, Cleveland appears
to have done little actual fighting. He was most often at the rear of the
regiment, tending to and assisting in moving the sick and wounded when the
camp moved. He frequently writes of staying behind as the mobile portion of
the regiment moves forward and, when they are separated, notes his concern
for his young son. Cleveland's diary entries are lengthy narratives on camp
life, moving camps and marches, records of letters and money sent to and from
home, and most commonly, stories of people he meets along the way. He tells
detailed stories of positive and negative encounters with Union and
Confederate supporters. Although Cleveland provides some accounts of
skirmishes, he does not record any particular battles or battle reports. |
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Narrative Of Andersonville, Drawn From The
Evidence Elicited On The Trial Of Henry Wirz, The Jailer, With The
Augument Of Col. N. P. Chipman, Judge Advocate. |
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Narrative of Amos E. Stearns, member
Co. A., 25th regt., Mass. Vols., a prisoner at Andersonville (1886). |
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Amos Guthrie diary, 1864. This collection
consists of diaries, an account book, images, and a letter by Asbury L.
Stephens of the 81st Ohio Infantry. The content mostly covers the Civil War
during 1864-1865. |
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Letters
to relatives discussing his studies at the University from 1857 to 1859, and
his subsequent service in the Ninth Michigan Infantry during the Civil War. |
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Civil War diary of Amos W. Avery of
Illinois who served in the Third Missouri Calvary, Company I. The diary
begins with a brief reminiscence back to Avery's enlistment in 1861 and has
regular entries from January of 1862 until March of 1863. There are also
entries from July to September of 1865. The diary was transcribed by Daniel
Smith in 1983. |
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Andrew E. Arneson Diary, 1865 .
Andrew Arneson was 25 years old when he began keeping this diary. He had come
from Norway to Blue Mounds, Wis., as a child, and when he enlisted in Feb.
1865 he was married and a new father. Arneson served as a private in Co. A of
the 49th Infantry and spent most of his days guarding prisoners in Missouri.
His diary is interesting because it records how the closing days of the war
appeared to a humble rank-and-file soldier. Most of its entries are short but
beginning on page 49 is a long ""Memoranda"" in which
Arneson reflects on his experiences. After discharge he returned to farming
in Ridgeway, Wis., until he retired in 1897 and moved into Mt. Horeb, where
he was active in village politics until his death in 1922. |
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Letters of Sergeant Andrew Donaldson
Stewart, 25th Ohio Volunteers, to Lettie Bonnifield, St. George, Va.,
describing the movements of his own and other Union regiments, predominately
in northern Virginia. |
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Andrew
F. Davis papers, May-December 1861 Andrew
F. Davis diary, 1861-1862 Andrew
F. Davis papers, January-October 1863 |
Davis, of Liberty, Union County, Indiana,
enlisted in Company I, 15th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers on May 14, 1861. He
was commissioned as a second lieutenant September 10, 1861, and as a first
lieutenant November 1862. |
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Record of the Thirty-third Massachusetts
Volunteer Infantry, from Aug. 1862 to Aug. 1865. By Andrew J. Boies. |
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Andrew J. P. Giddings Diary and Ledger of
Income and Expenses (1863-1865) describing the life of a Confederate soldier
from Onslow county, North Carolina who served in Company E, 3rd North
Carolina Infantry. Includes descriptions of several Civil War battles:
Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, Sharpsburg, Malvern Hill, 2nd Winchester,
Chancellorsville, and the Wilderness. Also includes an envelope (undated)
which contained the diary. "Granddad Giddings Diary" written on the
envelope. |
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Journal kept at Quartermaster's Department
in Detroit by Andrew J. Weston, a clerk and bookkeeper, during the Civil War.
Contains items of clothing issued to members of Company G, Second Michigan
Infantry. |
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A sketch of the boyhood days of Andrew J.
Andrews, of Gloucester County, Virginia, and his experience as a soldier in
the late war between the states (1905). |
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In
the lowlands of Louisiana in 1863, (1908). |
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Recollections of a prisoner of war (1909).
When the Civil War broke out he went to Pennsylvania and enlisted in the 10th
Pennsylvania Reserves. He was severely wounded in the battles around Richmond
in early 1862. He was shot in the groin and left for death. After three days,
he was discovered by the Confederates and taken to Libby Prison. |
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War reminiscences- a record of Mrs. Rebecca
R. Pomroy's experience in war-times |
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Anna Hasell Thomas Diary, July 1864 - May
1865, unbound diary describing several months preceding and following end of
Civil War, relating illness of her sister, Cornelia; departure from their
home in New York City for South Carolina on board the steamer, Arago; death
of her sister on board ship near the coast of Hilton Head Island, S.C., on
Christmas day, 1864; arrival at Charleston harbor and passing through the
Union blockade; details of crossing enemy lines on land, with an escort by
Union soldiers, including African American troops, and meeting with
Confederate soldiers; travel from Charleston with her sister's body, through
Columbia, S.C., to Ridgeway (Fairfield County, S.C.), and burial of her
sister. Later entries discuss rumors of Sherman's arrival, and her account of
21 Feb. 1865, the day Union soldiers filled her family home and removed meat,
livestock and valuables; the diary concludes with her return trip through the
burned ruins of Columbia, S.C., a difficult journey to the coast, food
shortages in Charleston, meeting former slaves who had worked for her family,
and her arrival in New York, with the city in deep mourning for the
assassination of President Lincoln. |
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Reminiscences- Fayetteville and Wytheville,
By Mrs. Anna K. Kyle. |
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Anne Fannie Gorham diary 1861 Dec. 30-1862
July 13. The Anne Fannie Gorham Diary Collection consists of a
transcript of Hamilton, Georgia resident Anne Fannie Gorham, which describes
her daily life in Hamilton, Georgia at the beginning of the Civil War. The
diary begins in December 30, 1861 and ends with July 13, 1862 with an entry
for every day. Gorham details visits to her sisters' houses, books she was
reading, sewing, and the Civil War. |
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Reminiscences - Frederick Philips, 15th
North Carolina Infantry, Company I and 30th North Carolina Infantry. |
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Reminiscences of the Life of a Nurse in
field, hospital and camp during the Civil War, 1904. |
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Under the Guns - A Woman's Reminiscences of
the Civil War,1895. |
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The
rebel pirate's fatal prize; or, the bloody tragedy of the prize schooner
Waring, enacted As The Rebels Were Attempting To Run Her Into Charleston, S.
C, July 7,1861. |
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Reminiscence
of an officer in the 1st Michigan Cavalry describing the campaign in June and
July 1863 centered on the Battle of Gettysburg. |
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Anson R. Butler letters, 1861-1900.
Primarily correspondence from Butler to his wife while he was serving with
the 26th Iowa Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. |
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Civil War Diary of young Aquilla Standifird
who served in four battles in the Civil War.
This day-by-day record gives an incredible account of the Iowa 23rd
Regiment Infantry, Company "D".
The Regiment lost six Officers and 69 enlisted men who were mortally
wounded and one Officer and 208 enlisted men who died by disease. |
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War Reminiscences by the Surgeon of Mosby's
Command (1890). |
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Arminius
Bill - Diary Part I (Sept 1861-Dec 30th 1861). Arminius
Bill - Diary Part II (Feb-March). Arminius
Bill - Diary Part III (March 1862 - May 1862). Arminius
Bill - Diary Part IV (June 1862 - Aug 1862). Arminius
Bill - Diary Part V (Sept 1862 - Nov-1862). Arminius
Bill - Diary Part VI (Dec 1862 - Feb-1863). Arminius
Bill - Diary Part VII (March 1863-May 1863). Arminius
Bill - Diary Part VIII (June 1863-August 1863). Arminius
Bill - Diary Part IX (Sept 1863-Dec 1863). Arminius
Bill - Diary Part X (Dec 1863 - Feb-1864). Arminius
Bill - Diary Part XI (March (1864)- May (1864). Arminius
Bill - Diary Part XII (June (1864)- August (1864). Arminius
Bill - Diary Part XIII (Sept. (1864)- Nov.(1864). |
Diary written by Arminius Bill, who served
as a physician for the Union Army in the Civil War from 1861 to 1865. |
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Life in the Confederate Army Being Personal
Experiences of a Private Soldier in the Confederate Army; and Some
Experiences and Sketches of Southern Life. From Documenting the American
South. |
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Arthur Tappan Strong diary, January 1
to March 9, 1862. Typescript transcription of an original diary written by
Arthur Tappan Strong from January 1, 1862 to March 9, 1862, while a member of
the 42nd Ohio Volunteers under Colonel James Garfield. This diary refers to
Arthur's death of "camp dysentery" in a Union army hospital at
Ashland, Kentucky February 28, 1862. |
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Prisoners Of War And Military Prisons;
Personal Narratives Of Experience In The Prisons At Richmond, Danville,
Macon, Andersonville, Savannah, Millen, Charleston, And Columbia A General
Account Of Prison Life And Prisons In The South During The War Of The
Rebellion, Including Statistical Information Pertaining To Prisoners Of War;
With A List Of Officers Who Were Prisoners Of War From January 1, 1864. |
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This collection consists of diaries, an
account book, images, and a letter by Asbury L. Stephens of the 81st Ohio
Infantry. The content mostly covers the Civil War during 1864-1865. The 81st
Ohio Infantry (1861-1865), of which Asbury L. Stephens was a member, was
active during the Civil War. In this time the regiment captured numerous
prisoners, obtained three battle flags, and participated in regular duties of
siege. |
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Recollections Of The Early Days Of The
National Guard, Comprising The Prominent Events In The History Of The Famous
Seventh Regiment New York Militia, 1868. |
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A few letters and speeches of the late
Civil War (1870). |
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The Cannoneer or Recollections of Service
in the Army of the Potomac, 1890 |
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Story of a Cannoneer - Reminiscences of a
Detached Volunteer in a Regular Battery. A series of articles from National
Tribune. |
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Diary of a Line Officer by Captain Augustus
Cleveland Brown, Company H, Fourth New York Heavy Artillery. |
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Recollections of Seventy Years, (1899). |
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Augustus
L. Yenner and Full
text of Augustus L. Yenner diary, 1863 |
Handwritten Civil War diary, soft cover,
pocket sized, scanned and transcribed. |
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Augustus
Woodbury – The Second Rhode Island regiment: a narrative of military
operations in which the regiment was engaged from the beginning to the end of
the war for the union. Augustus
Woodbury – General Ambrose E. Burnside and the Ninth Army Corps - a
narrative of campaigns in North Carolina, Maryland...during the war for the
preservation of the Republic (1867). Augustus
Woodbury – A narrative of the campaign of the First Rhode Island
regiment, in the spring and summer of 1861 ... (1862). |
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Reminiscences of Aurelius T.
Bartlett, 1890: Describe the affairs of the 33rd Missouri Infantry in
Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri, including detailed
descriptions of regimental casualties and of medical care provided at field
hospitals during the following battles and campaigns: attack on Helena, Ark.;
Red River campaign; engagement at Old River Lake, Ark.; Tupelo and Oxford,
Miss., expeditions; pursuit of General Sterling Price through Arkansas and
Missouri; Battle of Nashville; pursuit of General Hood through Tennessee; and
the Mobile campaign, including the Siege of Spanish Fort. |
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The B. H. Johnson Journal is a handwritten
account of one year from September 1863 to September 1864 recorded by a
Methodist circuit riding minister of eastern Virginia. Some mentioned
locations within Virginia are Shiloh, Charlottesville, Salem, Port Royal,
Spotsylvania, Hanover County, Augusta County, Caroline County, and Madison
County, among others. Subjects include the American Civil War and its
concomitant destruction, the duties and practices of a Methodist minister,
typhoid fever, 'Yankee' crime, and slavery. A particularly engaging segment within
Johnson's journal discusses the theft of his horse by rogues and the eventual
heroic repossession of his steed. |
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Excerpt from the diary of B. R. Cole, 73rd
Ind. Vol. |
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Random Sketches and Wandering Thoughts
or What I Saw During the Late Rebellion, 1866What I Saw In Camp, On The
March, The Bivouac, The Battle Field And Hospital, While With The Army In
Virginia, North And South Carolina, During The Late Rebellion. |
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From Reefer To Rear-Admiral - Reminiscences
And Journal Jottings Of Nearly Half A Century Of Naval Life (c1899). |
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Several letters written during the Civil
War describe economic conditions and confrontations with Confederate
guerillas in the Rocheport area. |
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Bartlett Yancey Malone was born in Caswell
County, North Carolina in 1838. In 1861, when he was twenty-three, he left
farming to enter the Civil War. He fought with the 6th North Carolina
regiment throughout Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, rising in the ranks
from private to sergeant. On November 7, 1863 he was captured by the Union
Army and imprisoned at Point Lookout, Maryland, where he remained until
February 24, 1865. The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone offers readers the
voice of one Confederate soldier among the thousands whose experiences and
impressions have gone unheard. Reported in a simple and matter-of-fact
manner, the diary begins, its editor notes, as a weather report catalogued by
an experienced farmer transplanted abruptly from cornfield to battlefield.
Many of the daily accounts in the first half of the journal contain
descriptive phrases about the weather. However, as Malone grows as a soldier,
so do the length, depth, and content of his entries. His persistent journal
habits include notations on his diet, his regiment's marches, and biblical
texts referred to in the sermons he hears. Interestingly, his rudimentary
spelling throughout the diary gives way to more formal prose in the few
sentimental poems he includes and likely composed. Of particular interest to
scholars is Malone's account of his time in prison at Point Lookout, which
offers a glimpse into the hardships Confederate soldiers endured in Northern
prisons. Malone ends his diary upon his return home to Caswell County in March
1865. |
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February 1864-January 1865. Basil H.
Messler enlisted in the Union Army in 1864, at Fort McClellan in Davenport, Iowa.
Messler served in the Mississippi Marine Brigade, which was commanded by
Brigadier General Alfred W. Ellet. He saw action at Vicksburg several times.
The Brigade was dissolved in August 1864, and Messler was reassigned as
Commissary Sergeant of the First Battalion Calvary Regiment. He was later
promoted to Corporal. Messler’s diary spans from late February 1864 to late
January 1865. It mainly describes the non-combat life of Messler and his
fellow soldiers. |
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Reminiscences of General Basil W. Duke,
C.S.A., 1911 |
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Correspondence between Dr. Asa Bean and his
family while he served as a surgeon in the Union Army in Maryland, Louisiana,
and Tennessee. Dr. Bean died of disease on a hospital ship April 26, 1863, as
his wife, Mary Bean, was traveling to Memphis to see him, having been
informed that he was gravely ill. |
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Personal correspondence of the Beidelman
and Wilmer families. Topics include the marriage of Mary Wilmer to the Rev.
John Nicholson of Rahway, N.J.; John Wilmer's voyage around Cape Horn to
Chile during the 1830s; the marriage of Catherine P. Wilmer to David
Beidelman, of Philadelphia, and the Civil War experiences of Wilmer and
Daniel Beidelman, Jr., members of the 19th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers,
discussing the destitution of the people of southern Maryland and northern
Virginia and the aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg. |
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Camp Fires of the Confederacy- A Volume of
Humorous Anecdotes, Reminiscences, Deeds of Heroism ... (1898). |
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This is the diary of Benjamin Benner who
served with Company G of the 29th Pennsylvania Infantry during the Civil War.
The diary is a summary of Benner’s military service from May 14, 1861. It is
an undated narrative account that describes various campaigns and battles
including the Battle of Gettysburg. |
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Recollections of the Twenty-Sixth Missouri
in the War for the Union, 1892. |
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Account (copy) by Lt. Colonel Benjamin D.
Pritchard on the capture of Jefferson Davis and other Confederate leaders by
the 4th Michigan Cavalry. |
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Dark days of the rebellion, or, Life in
Southern military prisons : giving a correct and thrilling history of
unparalled [sic] suffering, narrow escapes, heroic encounters, bold
achievements, cold blooded murders, severe tests of loyalty, and patriotism.
Written from a diary kept while in Libby and Salisbury prisons in 1864-5, and
now in possession of the author. |
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Autobiography and personal reminiscences of
Major-General Benj. F. Butler...his legal, political, and military career
(1892). |
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From reefer to rear-admiral - reminiscences
and journal jottings of nearly half a century of naval life (c1899) |
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Letters from the Army, 1862 – 1864, (1886).
Stevenson was Surgeon to the Twenty-Second Kentucky Infantry during the Civil
War, and wrote these letters as he thought and felt under the surroundings
and emergencies of the day, without thought of publication. |
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The collection includes the diary kept by
Benjamin F. White while serving in Virginia, July-October 1861. The diary
contains a detailed narrative of events, with comments and reflections,
including discussion of the Battle of Manassas (Bull Run), 21 July 1861.
Topics discussed include diseases that killed many in the regiment, preaching
and baptizing, gambling, and other aspects of camp life. |
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The journal includes entries from Benjamin
Henry Pope in 1862 as he serves in Company K, 9th Mississippi Infantry, and
provides details of battles in the Glasgow/Cave City/Munfordville, Kentucky
area and his opinion that General Chalmers made errors and poor decisions. |
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The 1864 leather bound, preprinted diary
contains two daily entries per page with cash accounts and notes sections in
the back of the diary. In 1864 Benjamin M. Peck was the Captain of Company B
in the 141st Regiment PA Volunteers. Due to absences, injuries, and illness
of other officers he was placed in command of the regiment before being
assigned to lead the 1st United States Sharp Shooters. Brigadier General
Byron R. Pierce saw fit to place him in charge of the three companies of
sharpshooters and he remained in this position until the end of the war. Peck
describes battles, skirmishes, picket lines, commands, and other military
assignments and engagements in great detail. He notes the various marches and
travel routes of his company and records his travels between the Virginia
front and his home in Towanda, PA. As part of the Army of the Potomac, Peck
recounts the regiments campaign in Virginia and the Siege of Petersburg. He
lists his men who were wounded or killed in battle, describes court martial
proceedings, and even gives an account of the execution of a Union soldier
for desertion. Following the 1864 presidential election he enumerates each
candidate's results within the division, which Lincoln won convincingly. |
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The old battle flags ... Veteran soldiers'
souvenir. Containing a brief historical sketch of each Connecticut regiment,
the various engagements, casualties, etc., during the war of the rebellion,
1879 |
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Dolores, a Tale of Disappointment and
Distress: Compiled, Arranged and Edited from the Journal, Letters, and Other
Manuscripts of Roland Vernon (1868). |
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How Soldiers Were Made, or, the War As I
saw It under Buell, Rosecrans, Thomas, Grant and Sherman, 1887. |
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This collection contains Benjamin T.
Hunter's diary, in which he wrote extensively about the weather, his school,
hunting, Civil War battles, drilling and camp life with the local militia,
the cost of items he had purchased, and various activities he pursued in his
workshop. Also included are military documents in which Hunter is ordered to
arrest deserters. There are letters from J. DeWitt Burkhead regarding a
teaching position in Athens, Georgia. The collection also contains papers
related to Hunter's teaching career, such as a booklet entitled
"Compositions of the Students of Grove Academy," and papers from
the University High School which include a school pamphlet, minutes of a
Civil War veterans' organization in the school, and minutes from the Alpha Nu
Society of the University High School. |
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Reminiscences of his service in Co. A 1 1
st O. V. I, General Davis' Division, Army of the Cumberland. Prefaced by his
short story of the Battle of Chickamauga, casualities of Co A, subsequent
Prison Life and return Home. |
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This is the diary of Benjamin Whitcomb who
served with the 15th Massachusetts Infantry from December 14, 1861 until he
was discharged on December 5, 1862, for wounds received at the Battle of
Antietam. The Diary contains entries from February 25 through September 27,
1862. |
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Memoir of Jonathan Letterman. |
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Confederate wizards of the saddle; being
reminiscences and observations of one who rode with Morgan. |
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Berry
Benson Diary 1861-1865 and A
Confederate Sergeant's Adventures, 1910-1911 |
The collection mainly consists of diaries
of Berry Benson from 1861-1865, which detail his service as a Confederate
Civil War soldier with Company H of the 1st South Carolina Infantry Regiment
as a scout and sharpshooter. Includes information on the battle of
Fredericksburg, Virginia; Benson's capture in Spotsylvania, Virginia; his
imprisonment and escape from Elmira Prison, New York; and other events in
Maryland and Georgia. Persons mentioned in Benson's diaries include Benson's
brother Blackwood "Bob" Benson, Frank Champion, Mike Duffy, and
General Bradley Johnson. The collection also includes a manuscript
(1910-1911) written by Benson entitled "A Confederate Sergeant's
Adventures" later published as a chapter in Elmira Prison Camp. |
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The papers of diarist Betty Herndon Maury
(1835-1903) consist of a diary kept by Maury from June 3, 1861, to February
18, 1863. The two-volume diary was scanned from one reel of microfilm. Maury
wrote the diary primarily in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and it contains
detailed comments on the progress of the American Civil War, especially in
the local area; contributions by women to the Confederate war effort;
hardships suffered by Confederate soldiers; and military activities of Betty
Maury's father, naval officer and oceanographer Matthew Fontaine Maury
(1806-1873), her cousin, Dabney Herndon Maury (1822-1900), and other members
of the Maury family. |
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Biographical sketches and pictures of
Company B, Confederate veterans of Nashville, Tenn (1902). |
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Collection consists of letters between the
Boardman family. The earliest letters are between Volney and his daughter
Margaret, who was attending an academy between 1850 and 1860; they concern
her education and the family's financial hardship following a drought and
failed crops. Civil War letters of James L. Boardman, 5th Alabama Regiment,
C.S.A., and of his brother, Henry, 62nd Alabama Regiment, C.S.A., describe
camp life, supplies, capture and imprisonment by the Yankees, military
campaigns, and the destruction of the Harper's Ferry and Winchester Railroad.
Letters following the war largely detail family affairs, with one letter
mentioning the activities of the Ku Klux Klan. |
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Civil War family letters from the Boyles
brothers of Stokes and Surry County, N.C., six of whom died during the war.
Eight of the Boyles brothers are represented either by their own letters or
by references in their brothers' letters. They are: Augustin (d. 1862 Nov.
14); John William (d. 1862 Aug. 11); James (d. 1864 Jun. 1); Calvin H. (d.
1865 Feb. 13); A. M. (d. 1863 Jan. 27); Irvin (d. 1863 Sept. 3); Riley R.,
and Wade. Of these, Wade was too young for military service, and Riley R. (or
R.R.) was in Junior Reserves. All of the other brothers died during the Civil
War from disease, except for Calvin and James, who died following wounds
received in action. The brothers belonged to Co. I and Co. F, 21st N.C.
Regiment, and Co. D., 53rd Infantry; most letters indicate they served in
Raleigh or in Virginia. Letters discuss the progress of the war in Virginia
and North Carolina, camp conditions, shortages of food and clothes (including
a letter from 1863 Jan. 20 indicating they were barefoot), and the execution
of deserters (a letter from 1863 May 11). Also included is a photograph of
Mary Ann Boyles taken in 1918. |
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Boynton,
Henry V. Sherman’s Historical Raid, 1875 |
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A Memoir of the Life and Public Service of
Joseph E. Johnston, 1891. |
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Predominantly letters concerning military
affairs regarding the Civil War, discussing fortifications, the port of
Pensacola, health in the army (including measles), the Army of Tennessee, a
court martial, and Confederate government pottery factories. Correspondents
include Eliza Brooks Ellis (his wife), Jefferson Davis, Patrick Cleburne,
Samuel Cooper, and James A. Seddon.. |
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Battles and sketches of the Army of
Tennessee. |
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Collection consists of personal letters of
Jesse, Austin, and Bardin Brown, Confederate soldiers, to their family. Most
letters document their loneliness and pessimism about their prospects of
returning home, and expressions of love and affection for their family. They
complain about lack of food, clothing, and timely wages. One letter from
August 1862 references Stonewall Jackson's military strategies in battle. |
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These are the diaries of Bruce Elmore who
served with the 143rd New York Infantry during the Civil War. Elmore
describes the life of soldier, homesickness, combat, illness, and troop
movements. |
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Diary and Records, 1866. January-December
1866, of Bruno Trombly, apparently of Potsdam, N.Y., who was, for most of
this period, a lieutenant in the 81st United States Colored Infantry at New
Orleans, La.; and service records (copies only) of Trombly from the National
Archives. Trombly discussed daily military and social routines, working for a
merchant in New Orleans, and his struggle to decide whether to settle in
Louisiana or New York State. |
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Extracts of Letters of Major-General Grimes
to His Wife. Written While Serving in the Army of Northern Virginia,1884. |
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Diary of Buford Brown, soldier. August 7,
1862 to May 31, 1865. Contains descriptions of daily weather and activities.
Includes lyrics to popular Civil War song "Lorena." |
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Three months in camp and field - diary of
an Ohio volunteer (1861) |
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By
an English Combatant - Lieutenant of Artillery on the Field Staff |
Battle-fields of the South from Bull Run to
Fredericksburg ; with sketches of the Confederate commanders, and gossip of
the camps (1864). |
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Portland Soldiers and Sailors- A Brief
Sketch of the part they took in the War of the Rebellion, 1884. |
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By
Members of the One Hundred and Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. |
Personal reminiscences and experiences-
campaign life in the Union Army from 1862 to 1865 (1900). |
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Diary and history of Co. E. 67th Regiment
(1900), Indiana infantry by Captain B.E. Long . |
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Reminiscences of One Who Suffered in the
Lost Cause, 1915. |
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The One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment New
York State Volunteers. A narrative of its services in the war for the Union
(1894). |
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Biography and personal sketches of all the
commanding officers of the Union Army (1880). Narrative of the Morgan Raid in
Indiana and Ohio ; Pursuit, Capture, Imprisonment and Escape of Morgan from
the Ohio Penitentiary; his |
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Reminiscences -A Tale of the Civil War as
told by C. K. McNeely, Co. D. 34th North Carolina. |
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C.P. Lacey diary, 1864. This collection
consists of a Civil War diary by C. P. Lacey that mainly focuses on battles
in Georgia. Accompanied is a cased photo on glass of Lacey as an older man. |
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This is an excerpt from the diary of C.T.
Kimmel, an assistant surgeon in the 2nd Missouri State Militia Cavalry. The
entries, dated May 10 – June 2, 1865, describe Kimmel mustering out of
service and returning home to Chariton County, Missouri. He mentions nearby
guerrilla warfare, and writes about mourning the death of President Lincoln.
Attached is an invitation to a New Year’s Union Ball on December 31, 1865 in
Brunswick, Missouri. |
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A Little Fifer’s War Diary, an
autobiographical memoir about his experiences during the American Civil War. |
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A Diary -The Eighty-third Ohio Volunteer
Infantry in the War, 1862-1865. |
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A Prisoner of War - A Veteran Illinois
Soldier in Andersonville. National Tribune, 1887. |
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This diary belonged to an unknown soldier
in Company C, 4th Infantry, California Volunteer Regiment, who was assigned
to a detail guarding a wagon train carrying specie to the east. |
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Calvin
Leach Diary, 1861-1863 vol. 1 Calvin
Leach Diary, 1861-1863 vol. 2 |
Calvin Leach Diary and Letters, 1861-1867. Calvin
Leach was born in 1843 and served as a church clerk in Montgomery County, N.C.,
before he joined the first North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Confederate
States of America, in September 1861. He died near Mechanicsville, Va., in
June 1864. The collection includes Calvin Leach's pocket diary, 1861-1864,
and five letters, 1863-1867. Note that the first entry in the second volume
of the diary is marked 1862 and subsequent entries are marked 1863. Contents
indicate, however, that the correct date is 1862 throughout. Most of the
diary entries recount daily life in the army and record military activities
in Virginia and Maryland, especially at Malvern Hill and Antietam. The first
four letters were written by Leach to his mother and his sister Louisa and
relate his living conditions and news of other men from his hometown. The
1867 letter was to Leach's father, D.A. Leach, from William Owens and
concerns land appraisal. |
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Pocket diary of Lieutenant Colonel Calvin
N. Otis, 100th New York Volunteer Infantry. The entries date from Jan. 10,
1862 to Dec. 31, 1862. In the back of the diary is an account and pencil map
of an unidentified battle, possibly Fair Oaks. |
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Reminiscences- Calvin Whit Lloyd, in the
form of a newspaper clipping. |
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Recollections and Letters of General Robert
E. Lee, 1924. |
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Carl
Schurz -The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz, Vol. 1 ,1907 Carl
Schurz -The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz, Vol. 2,1907 Carl
Schurz -The Reminiscences of Carl Schurz, Vol. 3,1907 |
Schurz joined the Union army in 1862 and
was made brigadier general of volunteers. In the next year and a half he commanded
troops at the Second Battle of Bull Run (August 1862) and at the battles of
Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chattanooga (all 1863). The conduct of his
troops at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg was criticized, but he apparently
retained the respect of his fellow officers. |
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Second Corporal, 97th Illinois Volunteer
Infantry Regiment, Company G. Consists of 129 letters home, 1862-1865, from
Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida, describing all
aspects of daily camp life, covering such topics as accommodations, food,
clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation, and weaponry. The letters
also reveal social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, and
patriotic sentiments and contain observations on military leaders (Ulysses S.
Grant). Colby includes graphic descriptions of particular battles and
skirmishes (Vicksburg, Fort Blakely, and Jackson). |
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Reminiscences -A Tale of the Civil War as
told by C. K. McNeely, Co. D. 34th North Carolina |
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Richards, Caroline Cowles. Village life in
America, 1852-1872, including the period of the American Civil War as told in
the diary of a school-girl (1913) |
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This collection contains four items
including an original diary kept by Carrie Berry from 1864-1866; an original
diary kept by her from 1868-1874; a friendship book published in 1870, which
is titled Mental Photographs an Album for Confessions or Tastes, Habits, and
Convictions; and a letter written to Carrie Berry and Blanche Hardin from
Clement A. Evans dated 2 February 1872, which was written while Carrie was a
student at the North Georgia Female Academy. In the diary kept from
1864-1866, Carrie gives a child's account of the siege, occupation and
burning of Atlanta. |
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George Hamilton Perkins, U.S.N.- His Life
and Letters, 1914. |
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Stonewall Jackson, late general of the
Confederate States army. A biographical sketch, and an outline of his
Virginian campaigns (1863). |
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Civil War Diary of Celestia Lee Barker,
1863-1904. |
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The collection consists of correspondence
from 1862-1870 to Mrs. Joel (Amelia) Chapin of Enfield, Connecticut from
friends of J. Leander Chapin regarding his imprisonment and death at Andersonville
Prison, Georgia. The letters discuss the hiring of Amelia Johnson in
Andersonville to care for the grave and erect a stone. Johnson's letters
contain very descriptive comments about the cemetery and stockade. Also in
the collection are three documents concerning death benefits paid to Mrs.
Chapin for her son's military service. Letters from Leander's friends who
describe his character and death are also included. |
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Confederate diary of Charles A. Canavella,
Co. E. 3d., Alabama Infantry, 1861-1864. This diary tells of the battle of
the Merrimac fought on March 8th and 9th, 1862. |
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Campaigning with the Sixth Maine - a paper
read before the Iowa Commandery Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the
United States (1897). |
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History of Durell's Battery in the Civil
War. (Independent Battery D, Pennsylvania Volunteer Artillery.) A narrative
of the campaigns and battles of Berks and Bucks counties' artillerists in the
War of the Rebellion. |
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Diary of Charles A. Gunn dated 1863. In
this diary, he writes a poem to his mother, draws badges for himself and
Arthur Gunn, discusses rations, finances, the weather, the railroad, his
health, a circus, the Siege of Vicksburg, General Morgan, camp life, deaths in
his regiment, the shooting of his horse (Dec 11), and the mail. Military
Service Note: Gunn, Charles A. Clinton County. Enlisted in company B, Third
Cavalry, Sept. 1, 1861, at St. Johns for 3 years, age 19. Mustered Oct. 11,
1861. On duty with Ninth Illinois Cavalry from Jan 31 to May 30, 1864.
Discharged at expiration of term of service at Brownsville, Ark., Oct. 24,
1864. |
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The collection consists of correspondence
from Civil War soldiers Charles A.J. Martin, James K. Polk Martin, and
probable cousin H.L.G. Whitaker, while serving in the 29th Georgia Infantry
Regiment in 1864. The letters are mostly written during the Atlanta Campaign,
except for one, from James Polk while he was in a hospital in Alabama. The
letters contain some comments on fighting, but the soldiers mainly discuss
their fears of dying and concern for friends and family in the war and at
home. Typed transcriptions are available for most of the letters. |
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Letters of A War Correspondent - Special
Correspondent of The New York "Tribune" During The Civil War
(1899). |
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This the Civil War diary (January 1, 1864
to May 19, 1865), of Corporal Charles A. Rubright of Company F, 106th
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Diary includes descriptions of
military camps in Virginia and Andersonville Prison in Georgia. |
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Reminiscences of a Boy's Service with the
76th Ohio, in the Fifteenth Army Corps (1908). |
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Charles Arad Gates letters, 1861-1863.
Charles Arad Gates was born in 1841, one of five children of Arad and
Charlotte Gates, in the village of West Monroe, near Baldwinsville, New York.
His parents were third generation New York farmers, but his family history
dated back to the immigrant Stephen Gates and his wife Anne who traveled from
England to settle in Hingham in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1638.
Charles' ancestors Deacon Samuel Gates II and Samuel Gates both served in the
Revolutionary War. From September 161 to June 1865 Gates served in the 1st
New York Light Artillery, Battery B, which was known until the Gettysburg
campaign in 1863 as Petit's Battery, after their first captain Rufus Pettit
of Baldwinsville. The battery was organized at Baldwinsville and was composed
chiefly of Onondaga county men. It was mustered into the state service at
Baldwinsville on August 24, 1861 and into the service of the United States at
Elmire on August August 31, 1866. Charles wrote letters home frequently to
his parents, relatives, and friends describing his experiences and thoughts
about the war. This collection is comprised of 39 of those letters written
between September 1861 and December 1863 and envelopes for which no letters
were found. There are examples of illustrated stationery, both in the letters
and the envelopes, including Union icons and likenesses of McClellan, George
Washington, and the Sons of Erin. Among the contents are four maps drawn by
Gates including the battery's first winter camp at Camp California near
Alexandria, Virginia; a map of the Antietam battlefield; a camp at Bolivar
Heights near Harper's Ferry, Virginia duruing the Maryland campaign in 1862;
and a cmp of the Chacellorsvillel battlefield. Noteworthy letters include a
letter of July 4th, 1864 describing two days of battle including the
climactic charge of Confederate troops led by General George Pickett on the
Union defense of Cemetery Ridge on the third day of battle. |
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Personal recollections of the war of 1861,
as private, sergeant and lieutenant in the Sixty-first Regiment, New York
Volunteer Infantry (1906). |
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Charles
B. Haydon - Diaries, September 20 - October 3, 1861 Charles
B. Haydon - Diaries, April 3 - May 18, 1862 Charles
B. Haydon - Diaries, April 30 - June 9, 1861 Charles
B. Haydon - Diaries, August 17 -August 31, 1861 Charles
B. Haydon - Diaries, December 6, 1863 - February 21, 1864 Charles
B. Haydon - Diaries, December 30, 1861 - January 14, 1862 Charles
B. Haydon - Diaries, February 16 - April 3, 1862 Charles
B. Haydon - Diaries, July 27-August 16, 1861 Charles
B. Haydon - Diaries, June 11 - July 26, 1861 Charles
B. Haydon - Diaries, May 19, 1862 – February 8, 1864 Charles
B. Haydon - Diaries, November 30 -December 29, 1861 Charles
B. Haydon - Diaries, October 4 - October 17, 1861 Charles
B. Haydon - Diaries, October 17 - November 28, 1861 Charles
B. Haydon - Diaries, September 1 - September 19, 1861 Charles
B. Haydon – Transcript of diaries compiled by Ida C. Brown , July 18-December
21, 1861 Charles
B. Haydon – Transcript of diaries compiled by Ida C. Brown , April 30,
1861-January 24, 1863 |
Student
at the University of Michigan (1854-1857) from Kalamazoo, Michigan, who
served in the Second Michigan Infantry during the Civil War. Civil
War diaries describing his army career. |
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Historical Sketches of the Ninth Michigan
Infantry with an account of the Battle of Murfreesboro, 1913. |
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Primarily letters from Berry to his family
while serving in the Confederate Army. There are also family letters, 1842,
from Eliza M. Griggs of Charles Town, Va. (now W. Va.), possibly Berry's
mother. |
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Captured by Mosby's Guerillas - An Exciting
Narrative by Brevet Major Charles Brewster. |
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Collection of letters with subjects
including business and personal affairs; "Traveller's Rest,"
(Buckingham County, Va.); vaccinations; and freemasonry. Also contains a
soldier's letter discussing Confederate cavalry operations in 1863,
mentioning food, clothing, horses, troop movements, and fighting. Confederates,
as well as Union troops, are guilty of depredations: "our men in many
respects equaled the Yankees in the way of plundering and rogueing." |
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Letters
written from friends serving in the Civil War, including Joseph Bardwell,
Horace Charles, and Charles J. Pierce, all of Battery I, 1st Illinois
Artillery; Heman D. Parrish of Co. C, 70th New York Infantry; Hiram Saxton of
Co. H, 9th Michigan Infantry; Milo C. Webb of Co. D, 11th Illinois Infantry;
and Edson Woodman of Co. H, 13th Michigan Infantry. |
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Charles
C. Nott - Sketches of the war: a series of letters to the North Moore street
school of New York. |
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Charles
C. Phillips Civil War diary and Signal Corps message book, 1864 |
Message book and diary (in one volume) kept
by Phillips during the period April 24, 1864 - July 13, 1864. Includes
details about Signal Corps activities during this period. Mentions seeing the
VMI cadets at Hanover Junction on May 23 (including his brother Samuel
Travers Phillips), where they stopped on their way to Richmond after the
Battle of New Market on May 15. |
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Charles Cady was born in Brooklyn,
Connecticut. On October 21, 1861, at the age of thirty-two he enlisted in
Company E of the 15th Regiment of the Iowa Volunteer Infantry. He served as a
sergeant in that company until his discharge on November 3, 1864. |
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Charles
Carroll Gray Diary vol. 1 Charles
Carroll Gray Diary vol. 2 Charles
Carroll Gray Diary vol. 3 |
Charles Carroll Gray of New York was a United
States Army medical officer in the first Battle of Manassas. During the Civil
War, he was confined in Confederate prisons. The collection is a diary,
initially 1861-1862 and later expanded to 1877, of Charles Carroll Gray in
the first Battle of Manassas and while confined in Confederate prisons,
including Libby Prison in Richmond, Va., Castle Pinckney in Charleston, S.C.,
and in other facilities at Columbia, S.C., and Salisbury, N.C. The diary
entries are extremely detailed, especially concerning medical conditions of
the prisoners and social interactions between prisoners and guards. |
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The Siege of Savannah in December, 1864,
and the Confederate Operations in Georgia and the Third Military District of
South Carolina during General Sherman's March from Atlanta to the Sea. From
Documenting the American South. |
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Pocket diary. 1862-1864. Pocket
diary in pencil and pen. Covers a wide range of dates, and includes address,
muster lists, as well as diary entries for the Months of August, September
and October, 1863. There is a drawing of a dove on the inside back cover. |
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Charles
Craver Pocket diary. 1861, Dec. 21 -- 1862, Dec. 23 Charles
Craver Pocket diary. 1863, Jan. 1 -- Apr. 7 Charles
Craver Pocket diary. 1863, Apr. 8 -- Oct. 23 |
Charles F. Craver fought in the United
States Civil War for the Union Side. He was listed as being from Iowa. He was
a Private E in the 4th Iowa Cavalry. |
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Recollections of the Civil War- with
leaders at Washington and in the field in the sixties, 1898. |
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The diary begins with his entries in March
1864; his wife continued the diary until September 1864. Charles Darwin
Elliot's portion of the diary describes troop movements around southern
Louisiana, the threat of Confederate guerillas and Jayhawkers, correspondence
with his wife, and brief observations on his daily activities. Emily Jane
Elliot's contributions to the diary detail the journey from New Orleans, La.,
to Massachusetts following Charles Darwin Elliot's discharge; daily life and
household activities; and relationships with her husband's family while the
couple lived in Foxboro immediately after the war. In the diary, there is a
list of tasks related to Elliot's surveying work, December 1863-March 1864.
Included in the surveyor field books are topographical sketches of and notes
from May 1863 about Bayou Boeuf, La., and undated information about eastern
Connecticut. |
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Charles E. Ripley diary, 1863-1864. This
collection consists of an 1864 Civil War diary that covers events like the
capture of Atlanta and Sherman's March to the Sea. Also included is
documentation of daily skirmishes and cannonades, as well as military
movement and analysis. Charles E. Ripley, Color Sergeant, 21st Wisconsin,
enlisted as a corporal August 15, 1862, and served with his unit through the
end of the war, being mustered out at Washington on June 8, 1865. |
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The long roll - being a journal of the
civil war, as set down during the years 1861-1863 (1911) |
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Letters Written During the Civil War
1861-1865, 1898. The Second Massachusetts Infantry Regiment was organized in
April, 1861, immediately after the firing on Fort Sumter. Charles F. Morse
was soon among them, eventually rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. |
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Charles
F. Weller, Pocket sized diary, from January to June of 1865 Charles
F. Weller, Pocket sized diary, beginning in 1862 and ending in 1864 |
Pocket sized diary, in a leather case, beginning
in 1862 and ending in 1864 written by Charles F. Weller about his service as
a union soldier in the United States Civil War. |
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Charles
Francis Adams - A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865, vol. 1, 1920. Charles
Francis Adams - A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865, vol. 2, 1920. Charles
Francis Adams, The Civil War Diaries Unverified Transcriptions_1861 |
Charles Francis Adams Sr. (August 18, 1807
– November 21, 1886) was an American historical editor, writer, politician,
and diplomat.[1] He was a son of President John Quincy Adams, and grandson of
President John Adams, about whom he wrote a major biography. He was the
father of Henry Adams. Adams served two terms in the Massachusetts State
Senate before running unsuccessfully as vice-presidential candidate for the
Free Soil Party in the election of 1848 on a ticket with former president
Martin Van Buren. During the Civil War, Adams served as the United States
Minister to the United Kingdom under Abraham Lincoln, where he played a key
role in keeping the British government neutral and not diplomatically
recognizing the Confederacy. |
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Bushee's diary is an account of his duties
and the movements of Company E, 112th Regiment, New York Infantry, from
January to mid-November of 1863. Each entry begins with the phrase "1
day for Uncle Sam" and in the cash accounts in the back of the diary,
Bushee refers to his pay as coming from "Uncle Sam." From September
of 1862 to June of 1863, the 112th New York Infantry was stationed in central
and eastern Virginia. Bushee writes frequently of picket duty and skirmishes
around Franklin, Carville [sic] (likely Carrsville), and Norfolk, Virginia.
He also provides some details of the siege at Suffolk in April 1863. In July,
the regiment began the trip to Charleston, South Carolina. Bushee reports on
the shelling at Fort Sumter from his posts around Fort Wagner, Black Island,
and Charleston in August. Although he seems he often notes being ordered to
and going to the front, he does not detail his actions there. By September,
Bushee's increasing illness begins to dominate his diary. The last eight
weeks of entries, ending abruptly on November 18th, consists of little more
than "feel unwell." Bushee died three weeks later. The latter pages
of the diary contain detailed cash accounts of Bushee's purchases, as well as
a list of dead and wounded from the company, and dates he served on guard and
picket duty. |
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Charles H. Knox diary and letters,
1864-1865. The collection consists of a memoir written by Charles H. Knox
based upon a diary kept as a prisoner that describes the battle which
resulted in his capture, the trip to Andersonville by train, the layout of
the prison using a hand drawn map, the shelters of either tents or holes dug
in the ground, the food and prices, the number of prisoners arriving on
various days, punishments, hangings and exchange of prisoners. He includes
maps and drawings of the prison grounds. There are also two letters to his
wife. One letter informing her of his imprisonment and the other from
Annapolis telling her that he was exchanged on February 26, 1865. Charles H.
Knox enlisted January 5, 1864 in Company L, Connecticut 1st Cavalry. He was
captured at Craig's Church, Virginia on May 5, 1864 and taken to
Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Knox was finally sent to Florence (South
Carolina) stockade for exchange. |
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The Civil War Diary of Charles H. Lynch,
18th Connecticut Volunteers. |
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The Memoirs of Charles Olmstesad.
Reminiscences of service with the First volunteer regiment of Georgia,
Charleston harbor, in 1863. An address delivered before the Georgia
historical society, March 3, 1879 (1879) |
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Charles
H. Peterson Diary, 1863 Charles
H. Peterson Diary, 1864 Charles
H. Peterson Diary, 1865 |
Between 1863 and 1865 Charles H. Peterson
kept these diaries which document his participation in the Chancellorsville,
Gettysburg, Wilderness, and Petersburg campaigns during the US Civil War. He
tucked notes, correspondence, currency, and newspaper clippings between the
pages. The collection includes notes, correspondence, currency, and newspaper
clippings that were tucked between the pages of the three diaries. |
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Sketches of Stonewall Jackson, giving the
leading events of his life and military career, his dying moments and the
obsequies at Richmond and Lexington (1863). |
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Brief Sketch of the Battle of Gettysburg,
Introduction to Maine at Gettysburg, 1898. |
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Historical sketch of the Chatham artillery
during the Confederate struggle for independence (1867). |
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Kroff enlisted in Company "F" of
the 11th Indiana Infantry Volunteers on July 12, 1861, at the age of 23. The
diary describes his experiences during four years and one month of service:
the battles, the news he heard about the War in other parts of the country,
and the problems of soldiering. Kroff's regiment fought fifteen regular
battles, including Shiloh, the capture of Corinth, and the battle at Fort
Donelson. The regiment was under fire seventy-seven different days. The last
official entry of the diary is August 11, 1865, when the 11th Indiana
Infantry Volunteers received their pay and went their separate ways. There is
an additional entry dated December 11, 1909, the seventy-second birthday of
Charles Kroff. |
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Charles
L. C. Minor Cash Book and Edward P. Harmon Civil War Diary, 1860-1864 |
Cash book maintained by Confederate Captain
Charles L. C. Minor from 1860 to 1864. Also contained within the cash book's
pages are diary entries of Union Army Private Edward P. Harmon (5th Maine
Infantry) during May and June, 1864. Research materials on the two soldiers
(including photocopies of maps, muster rolls, census records, and an image of
Harmon) and a complete photocopy of the piece are also included. The small
volume of 68 pages, bearing on its spine the embossment "cash
book," was retained for its intended use by Captain Minor, its original
owner, to carefully record personal expenditures and savings. Minor's records
commence with November 6, 1860 and end on May 4, 1864. In recording these
financial transactions, Minor provides details regarding his daily
whereabouts and activities. He records meal and travel purchases, as well as
amounts paid to individual servants, expenses for personal and household
items, services, and military gear. Also recorded within the book are Minor's
bank transactions for 1861-1862, a list of silver wedding gifts received by
Fanny Cazenove Minor, and a list of stocks and bonds held by Minor. The cash
book was among materials seized by Federal troops in the act of destroying
the rail line and depot at Hewletts Station, Virginia on May 25, 1864, and
came into the possession of Private Harmon, who used it as a diary. (As the
first diary entry predates the volume's capture by three weeks, we may
surmise that the early entries were made retrospectively or that they were
copied from another book.) Harmon's first entry, for May 2, finds his
regiment having just crossed the Hazel River and preparing to cross the
Rapidan. Soon, Harmon describes fearful, endless shelling by "cast iron
hummingbirds" during the Battle of the Wilderness. Harmon briefly
mentions African American troops, Confederate prisoners of war, and camp
rumors. As the regiment marches toward Spotsylvania Court House, Harmon
mentions a fire in which many wounded soldiers were killed. He describes
heavy fighting and losses at Spotsylvania and at one point questions the
actions of the Brigade commander. As his regiment endures battles at North
Anna and Cold Harbor, Harmon describes the morale of his comrades ("very
much broken up they are tired heartsick & discouraged") and himself
("sick, tired & worn out too night this is our 9th day of
slaughter"). Many of the entries center on his brigade's movements and
preparations for battles that often fail to materialize. Harmon's diary
entries end with June 3, 1864. Following the June 3 entry is a gap,
indicating the removal of several pages, and a page of wartime accounts held
by Harmon and I. F. Goodwin. The volume also contains two botanical samples,
one of which appears to be a collection of four-leaved clovers, tipped into
the first two pages. |
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The great war relic ...Together with a
sketch of my life, service in the Army...many interesting incidents
illustrative of the life of a soldier (1870). |
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Narrative of a private soldier in the
volunteer army of the United States, during a portion of the period covered
by the great war of the rebellion of 1861 (1879). |
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Personal reminiscences of the Monitor and
Merrimac engagement, and destruction of the Congress and Cumberland, 1886. |
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Biographical sketches of Gen. Pat Cleburne
and Gen. T. C. Hindman (1898). |
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Journal of Charles Newell Hammond
(1835-1891). Hammond served with Co. F, 96th Ill. Vol. Inf. Regt., USA. The
journal provides an account of the company's rations and expenses as well as
his personal account of the mundane events of camp life. On June 25 he wrote,
"My 28th birthday, thought about greens for dinner but had to eat Hard
tack & sow belly. The boys nearly all went to the front but I was
shoeless & had to stay." |
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This is the diary of Charles O. Poland, a
private in Company B, 142nd Ohio Infantry (National Guard) during the Civil
War. The 142nd Ohio National Guard was organized at Camp Chase, Ohio and
mustered into service for 100 days on May 12, 1864. On May 14, the regiment
proceeded to Martinsburg, West Virginia, where it drilled until May 19, when
ordered to Fort Lyon, Virginia, from which it served guard duty in the
Washington D. C. area. On June 5, the regiment was ordered to the front and
arrived on June 9 at White House Landing, Virginia, where it was dispatched
to guard a supply train through the Wilderness to Cold Harbor. From there,
the 142nd proceeded to Point of Rocks, about five miles from Petersburg,
Virginia. The regiment participated in the early siege of Petersburg through
August 19, when it was ordered back to Washington, D.C., thence to Camp
Chase, where it was mustered out on September 2, 1864. The diary's entries
commence on June 15, 1864, with Knox already in the rifle pits before
Petersburg. He writes of being detailed to destroy Confederate breastworks,
erect fortifications, and fell trees as battles raged nearby. Elsewhere he
mentions having seen generals Grant and Burnside, the gunboats on the James
River, the discovery of a cache of buried silver and gold by a New York
regiment while hunting for fishing worms, and the trading of hardtack for
tobacco between the lines. Throughout the diary, Poland notes many days on
picket, and the state of the fighting around Petersburg. On July 20, Poland
developed a fever, and the final four entries, concluding with July 31, are
devoted to the condition of his health. |
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Fenton, Michigan, soldier who served in Co.
I, Third Michigan Infantry during the Civil War. Letters written to his wife
concerning his wartime experiences. |
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Life and public services of General Ulysses
S. Grant, from his boyhood to the present time. And a biographical sketch of
Hon. Schuyler Colfax (1868) |
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Sergeant Benjamin. T. Strong's biography -
reminiscences of his service in Co. A, 101st O.V.I., Army of the Cumberland,
1913. |
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Mansfield Men in the 7th Pennsylvania
Cavalry, Eightieth Regt, with Letters of Charles M. Rumsey and Personal War
Sketches, 1861-1865. |
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Letters describing the Sherman's Army march
from Chattanooga, Tenn., by way of Dalton, Atlanta, Milledgeville, and
Augusta, to Savannah, Ga., in 1864, and across South Carolina to Raleigh,
N.C.; camp life, chaplains; foraging; the burning of Atlanta (which he witnessed);
destruction of property by the Union army between Atlanta and Savannah; the
hanging of a Confederate bushwhacker; the battle of Bentonville, N.C.; the
occupation of Raleigh; and the reaction in Sherman's Army to the new of Lee's
surrender and the death of Lincoln. He describes the vandalism of Sherman's
forces in S.C., and compares them to lighter damage inflicted by the men in
N.C.; he also describes the vandalism of Gen. Joseph Wheeler's cavalry in
Raleigh. |
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Narrative of the Fall and Winter Campaign
by a Private Soldier containing a detailed description of the Battle of
Fredericksburg, 1863. |
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A diary of battle; the personal journals of
Colonel Charles S. Wainwright, 1861-1865. Edited by Allan Nevins. |
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Charles
Sigwalt Diary vol. 1 (January 6, 1862 - December 31, 1862) Charles
Sigwalt Diary vol. 2 (January 1, 1863 - January 21, 1864) Charles
Sigwalt Diary vol. 3 (January 1, 1864 - December 31, 1864) Charles
Sigwalt Diary vol. 4 (January 1, 1865 - October 17, 1865) Charles
Sigwalt , With Sherman from Chattanooga to Atlanta (typed monograph) |
Charles Sigwalt, originally a resident of
Long Grove, Illinois, went on to become a prominent businessman, Postmaster
and eventually Village President [Mayor] of Arlington Heights, Illinois. He
was Village President during the years 1891-1893, 1894-1897 and 1899-1905.
This diary begins with Sigwalt's daily life on a farm in Long Grove and
continues with his enlistment and involvement in the 88th Regiment Illinois
Volunteer Infantry. |
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Life in southern prisons; from the diary of
Corporal Charles Smedley, of Company G, 90th regiment Penn volunteers,
commencing a few days before the "battle of the Wilderness", in
which he was taken prisoner, in the evening of the fifth month fifth, 1864:
also, a short description of the march to and battle of Gettysburg, together
with a biographical sketch of the author. |
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Daily Journal for 1861 - Commenced in
Columbia, S.C." by Rev. C. S. Vedder. Topics discussed include religion,
the start of the Civil War, travels, and Vedder's start as the pastor of
Summerville, S.C. Diary of Rev. C. S. Vedder, begun 13 July 1863. Topics
discussed include travel, religious activities, illness, and news from the
war. Includes a long gap, Feb. - May 1865, "due to the fact that it was
buried, with other papers, to avoid its being taken and destroyed by
anticipated Raiders." |
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A brief history of the Twenty-eighth
regiment New York state volunteers, First brigade, First division, Twelfth
corps, Army of the Potomac, from the author's diary and official reports.
With the muster-roll of the regiment, and many pictures, articles and letters
from surviving members and friends, with the report of proceedings of the
thirty-fifth annual reunion held at Albion, New York, May 22, 1896. [By] C. W.
Boyce. |
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Charles W. Chapman was a farmer from Grandview,
Iowa. He served as a private in Company F of the 19th Infantry Regiment of
Iowa Volunteers. [N.B.: the regiment number written on Chapman's diary is the
15th Infantry; however, it appears that he was actually in the 19th
Infantry.] This is a handwritten pencil diary, detailing Chapman's daily life
in the military. |
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Campaigns of 1864 and 1865. Narrative of Major-General
C. W. Field, SHSP, vol. 14. |
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Diary kept by Charles Whipple Hadley
(1844-1936), of Anamosa, Iowa. At age 17, Hadley left Anamosa to enlist in
the Union army during the American Civil War. He traveled south to Davenport,
where he became a member of the 14th Iowa Regiment of Volunteer Company H.
Hadley's regiment was based in St. Louis at Benton Barracks. Serving from
1861 to 1863, Hadley commanded his own company, spent six months as a
prisoner of war, and was probably wounded in battle. In 1863, he returned to
Anamosa to live with his family, where he continued writing in his diary
until 1864. He spent many years in Ogden City, Utah, where he died in 1936. |
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Reed was an artist and soldier in the Ninth
Independent Battery, Massachusetts Light Artillery (Bigelow's Battery). In
November 1864 he was transferred to the Topographical Engineers, Fifth Army
Corps and served as an assistant to the topographical engineer under General
Gouverneur K. Warren at V Corps headquarters. |
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The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby, 1917. |
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Army life of an Illinois soldier, including
a day by day record of Sherman's march to the sea; letters and diary of the
late Charles W. Wills, private and sergeant 8th Illinois Infantry; lieutenant
and battalion adjutant 7th Illinois Cavalry; captain, major and lieutenant
colonel 103rd Illinois Infantry. Compiled and published by his sister [Mary
E. Kellogg] |
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Charles Wood diary, 1857-1869. The
collection consists of a diary of Charles Wood from 1857-1861, 1863. Early
entries relate to his activities as a law student and his political views.
Entries in 1861 describe his journey from Richmond (Va.) to Tallahassee
(Fla.) after being assigned as aide-de-camp to General John B. Grayson, who
was Commander of the Dept. of East Florida. Wood describes the various towns
he traveled through and upon arriving in Tallahassee, the illness and death
of General Grayson. In 1863, he wrote a short entry discussing the war's
impact on his personal philosophy. The volume also contains personal
financial accounts from 1868-1869. |
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Charles
Woodruff – Diaries, Aug. 1862-Jan. 30, 1863 and Sept. 23-Oct. 26, 1863 |
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Stories of Our Soldiers - War Reminiscences
(1893). |
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Reminiscences -The Burnside Expedition to
Roanoke. |
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Soldier boy's letters to his father and
mother, 1861-5 (1915). |
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Recollections of Field Service with the
Twentieth Iowa Infantry Volunteers 1865. |
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Loss of the Sultana and Reminiscences of
Survivors, 1892 |
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Historical sketch of the Chicago Board of
Trade Battery, Horse Artillery, Illinois volunteers (1902). |
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Rupp's Memorandum Book July 5-September 22
– 1864. Begins in Thibodoux, Louisiana on July 5. The soldiers are put onto a
boat in the Mississippi River which almost immediately runs aground on a
sandbar. They are transferred to another boat, the original boat is freed from
the sand bar, then they are transferred once again to the original boat. They
then travel out into the gulf, past the Tortugas, past the Hatteras
Lighthouse, and up the east coast to Chesapeake Bay. They travel up the
Potomac River. They disbark and travel overland to participate in battles at
Winchester and Cedar Creek. Rupp was from Vinton, Iowa. He enlisted on August
12, 1862, was mustered in on September 2, 1862, and mustered out on July 31
1865 at Savannah, Georgia. This journal was donated by the Owen Winfield
Family. |
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Christian Hook was a Union Corporal in
151st Ohio Infantry (National Guard) during the Civil War. The collection contains
his diary of May to August 1864, including entries on camp life and a
near-court martial, as well as a reunion flyer for the regiment from 1925.
Entries primarily detail Hook's movements and actions from the day before
mustering in Ohio until a few days before his return. Hook notes passing
Harpers Ferry and encountering wounded soldiers returning home. Most days are
described as "pleasant" in the fortifications around Washington,
D.C. throughout the first half of Hook's deployment. Lincoln arrived in camp
on July 10. His subsequent addresses show he knew Confederate Lt. Gen. Jubal
A. Early's forces would be arriving within a day and proceeded to stay in
camp to observe the fighting, now referred to as the Battle of Fort Stevens.
The strong defenses of Fort Stevens minimized the military threat and Early
withdrew after two days of skirmishing without attempting any serious
assaults. Hook notes the fortifications around Washington returned to quiet
by July 14. All entries return to describing the days as pleasant until July
30. An apparent disagreement over the posting of troops resulted in Hook's
arrest and detainment at Fort Sumner while awaiting trial for court martial.
For unapparent reasons, Hook was released August 6. The rest of the journal
notes his picket duty, although the dates August 10-15 are missing. Diary
concludes with Hook in Baltimore August 21 awaiting departure to Harrisburg
and ultimately to Ohio for the Regiment to be mustered out. |
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Recollections of Robert E. Lee, The South
Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 24,1925 |
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Seven letters, 1863-1864, from Christopher Wren
Bunker serving in Tennessee and Virginia to his sister, and one letter, 14
October 1864, from Bunker in prison to his father, mother, brother, and
sisters. The letters describe the weather and conditions in the army and give
news of friends. The letter from prison discloses that Bunker had been
captured and had been ill with smallpox at Camp Chase. Bunker served in the
Confederate Army in eastern Tennessee and western Virginia. He was captured 7
August 1864 and imprisoned at Camp Chase, Ohio. |
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This collection consists of a loose diary
written by an unidentified Michigan soldier fighting in Georgia. The diary
details the daily life of a Northern soldier fighting in Georgia during the
Civil War in the winter of 1864-1865. |
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Diary reflecting the daily life of an Union
soldier enlisted in the 2nd Regiment, Company A, of the Minnesota Volunteers,
also known as the Chatfield Guards. The diary dates from 18 June 1861 to 17
July 1863 and documents life in camp, marches, and military engagements. |
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Civil
War Sketches and Incidents, Papers read before the Commandery of the State of
Nebraska, 1902 |
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This Civil War diary belonged to a Union
soldier and contains entries from January 22, 1862, to April 27, 1862. The
diary begins in the aftermath of the Battle of Mill Spring in Kentucky and
details the soldier's movement from Kentucky to Tennessee. The diary ends just
after the Battle of Shiloh. Throughout the diary the soldier discusses daily
life, logistics, the weather, as well as the regiments that he travelled and
fought alongside with. |
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Throughout the war, Barton and her supply
wagons traveled with the Union army, giving aid to Union casualties and
Confederate prisoners - at the Second Battle of Bull Run, Chantilly, Harper's
Ferry and South Mountain. Transportation was provided by the army
quartermaster but most of the supplies were purchased with donations
solicited by Barton or by her own funds. Active during the Rebellion, Barton
climaxed her Civil War activity when she participated in establishing a
national cemetery around the graves of the Union men who died in the
notorious Andersonville Prison in Georgia. With the help of Dorence Atwater,
who had secretly tabulated a list of the dead during his own imprisonment in
Andersonville, and a team of 30 military men, Barton identified the graves of
nearly 13,000 men. |
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Claudius
B. Grant -Diaries, 1865 Claudius
B. Grant - Diaries, 1862 Claudius
B. Grant -Diaries, 1863 |
Diary,
1862-1865, written while serving in Co. D, 20th Michigan Infantry in the
Civil War, recounting daily activities and the sieges of Knoxville and
Petersburg; correspondence, mainly with his mother and wife, while a student
at University of Michigan and during the Civil War. |
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Cloe
Tyler Whittle Greene Diary, vol 1 |
Diary of Cloe Tyler Whittle Greene, July
30, 1862 - September 27, 1863. The diary begins at the outbreak of the
Civil War, when she was a student. She gives a detailed account of war-time
activities in Norfolk, Virginia including the fall of that city and being
evacuated to Charleston, South Carolina, and then the fall of Charleston
prompting and her return to Norfolk. She records the fall of Richmond and
General Robert E. Lee's surrender. She visited Jefferson Davis while he was
in prison. She also met General Robert E. Lee and General Curtis Lee. After
the war, she writes of her social and church activities, books read and trips
taken, and the courtship and marriage to John Greene. |
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Walton, Clyde, ed. Private Smith's journal;
recollections of the late war (1963). |
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Reminiscences- Brigadier General Collett
Leventhorpe. |
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Correspondence, proclamations, messages of
the president, court cases, minute books, docket books, customs records,
financial records, letterbooks, orders, reports, and other records of the
Confederate Department of Justice, Department of State, Department of the
Treasury, Post Office Department, Navy Department, and War Department.
Includes Confederate constitutional documents and the James Wolcott Wadsworth
collection of diplomatic correspondence and letters of Raphael Semmes. |
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Memorial Reminiscences, United Confederate
Veterans. Arkansas Division (1907) |
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Soldier
from Ann Arbor, Michigan who served in Co. D., Twentieth Michigan Infantry
during Civil War. Diaries, 1863-1864; citation for Congressional Medal of
Honor, newspaper clippings, photographs, and medal. |
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Reminiscences of the Civil War. |
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A Diary with Reminiscences of the War and
Refugee Life in the Shenandoah valley, 1860-1865. |
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1863 Civil War Diary of Cornelius Byington.
In the diary, he describes the status of his regiment, the siege of
Vicksburg, and burning railroads and homes (July 18, 1863). Military Service
Note: Byington, Cornelius. Battle Creek. Entered service in company C, Second
Infantry, at organization, as Captain, May 10, 1861, at Battle Creek, for 3
years, age 39. Commissioned Major April 25, 1861. Mustered May 25, 1861.
Commissioned Major July 26, 1862. Died Dec. 11, 1863, from wounds received in
action at Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 24, 1863, while in command of and gallantly
leading his regiment in the assault on the enemy's works. |
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Civil War diary of Lt. (later Capt.)
Cornelius C. Platter, of the 81st Ohio Infantry Volunteers, from November,
1864 - April 27, 1865. Platter's diary details Sherman's march through
Georgia from Rome to Savannah and the march north through the Carolinas. He
gives dates, times, and lengths of marches and describes the weather, locale,
scenery, and food as well as orders, rumors, positions, troop morale, and
administrative duties. The diary also includes a description of the burning
of Columbia, South Carolina, the news of the Confederate surrender, and the
assassination of Abraham Lincoln. |
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Cornelius
Hanleiter Diaries Vol. 1 (transcriptions) Cornelius
Hanleiter Diaries Vol. 2 (transcriptions) Cornelius
Hanleiter Diaries Vol. 3 (transcriptions) |
Cornelius Hanleiter (1815-1897) was born in
Savannah, Georgia, the fourth and youngest child of John Jacob Hanleiter, Jr.
and Elizabeth McFarland. His father died shortly after his birth and his
mother orphaned him at the age of eight. He was soon an apprentice in
Savannah where his career as a printer developed. Hanleiter published newspapers
and journals throughout the state including the Constitutionalist, Georgia
Messenger, and The Southern Ladies Book, among others. In 1847 he moved to
Atlanta and by 1852 began publishing the Atlanta Intelligencer. Hanleiter was
active in Atlanta civic affairs, organizing the Gate City Guard, and serving
on the Atlanta City Council and as a judge of the Inferior Court of Fulton
County. Although he opposed secession, Hanleiter served in several Georgia
units, most prominently in the Jo Thompson Artillery of Wright’s Legion, 38th
Georgia Infantry Regiment. He eventually gained the rank of Colonel. |
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The Last Privateer – A narrative of service
aboard the Confederate States’ Cruiser Shenandoah. National Tribune, 1902. |
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Twenty-five years on the streets of
Milwaukee after dark; together with sketches of experiences as newsboy in the
army, capture and imprisonment in Libby prison (1897). |
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The collection consists of a diary of
Cyrena Bailey Stone written from January - July, 1864. The diary includes
descriptive accounts of life in the South during the Civil War, slaves
reaction to the Emancipation Proclamation and the probable fall of the
Confederacy, prices for food and clothing, visits to prisons and hospitals,
preparations of fortifications, shellings and cannonadings, falsified reports
in Southern newspapers, diatribes towards leaders of the Confederacy
especially Howell Cobb and Jefferson Davis, the fall of towns such as Tunnel
Hill, Dalton, and Resaca (Ga.), and the evacuation of Atlanta. |
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This collection consists of one thirty-six
page document where Bussey details his exploits as an officer with the Iowa
Cavalry. Bussey refers to himself in the third person in this laudatory
discussion of his experience with the Army of the Southwest, including his
encounters with Colonels Van Dorn, McCulloch, and McIntosh; Generals
Osterhaus, Fremont, Steele, Sherman, and Grant; Major William C. Drake, Lt.
Col. Frimble, Captain Thomas J. Taylor, Lt. A. H. Griswold and Union spy
William Miller. |
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Cyrus F. Jenkins Civil War diary,
1861-1862. The Cyrus F. Jenkins Civil War Diary, 1861-1862, held at the Troup
County Archives, chronicles Cyrus Franklin Jenkins' experiences as an
enlisted man in the Meriwether Volunteers, Company B, 13th Georgia Infantry Regiment,
during the first year of the war, June 1861 to March 1862. Jenkins vividly
describes the early euphoria of the war and the regiment's campaigns in
western Virginia (now West Virginia) as part of Floyd's Brigade and in
Savannah in Lawton's Brigade. The regiment took part in skirmishes at Sewell
Mountain, Laurel Hill, and Whitemarsh Island. While traveling, Jenkins also
remarks on the changing scenery he encounters. Additionally, his account of
camp life highlights the medical care available to Confederate soldiers at
this stage in the war. Jenkins was killed at Spotsylvania, Virginia, on May
12, 1864.. |
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Cyrus Morton Cutler Letters From the Front
- From October, 1861 to September, 1864 (1892). Cyrus Morton Cutler was in
the service of the United States during the war of the Rebellion, his record
being as follows: enrolled August 10, 1861, in Company F, Twenty-second
Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry; on detached service with Battery C, First
New York Light Artillery, from June 30. 1863, to August 22,1864. |
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Cyrus
Thomas Diary transcript,1862 |
Handwritten Civil War diary, soft cover,
pocket sized, scanned and transcribed . |
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Civil War Diary of Cyrus Vanmatre,
member of Company E, 8th regiment, Indiana Volunteers. |
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In this diary, Bacon describes daily life
in the Seventh Michigan Infantry. He gives vivid accounts of Yorktown, Fair
Oaks, White Oak Swamp, Antietam, and Gettysburg. |
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Confederate Captain D. Coleman was an
officer with various units of the Army of Tennessee and with detached cavalry
in Bedford County, Tullahoma, Chattanooga, and Lookout Mountain, Tenn., and
Chickamauga, Ringgold, and Dalton, Ga. The collection is a diary, 26 January
1863-18 February 1864 and summer, 1864, of Coleman, including vivid
descriptions of military activity, daily life, and trips to his home at
Athens, Ala., which was at times under federal occupation, to care for his
family and to recruit. |
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D.
H. Hill Papers, 1879-1951 and undated |
The collection consists of Civil War and
postwar correspondence of General D. H. Hill with high Confederate military
and civil officers, with some letters from Robert Lewis Dabney (1820-1890),
Virginia theologian and Confederate chaplain. There are also notes by Charles
W. Dabney, who assembled the items, circa 1929-1931. Persons represented
include Rufus Barringer, P. G. T. Beauregard, John C. Calhoun, Robert Hall
Chilton, Robert Lewis Dabney, Jubal A. Early, William A. Graham, Wade Hampton
III, Stonewall Jackson, Joseph E. Johnston, Washington Caruthers Kerr, Drury
Lacy, James Henry Lane, Alexander Robert Lawton, Robert E. Lee, James
Longstreet, Alexander Peter Stewart, Robert Augustus Toombs, Joseph Wheeler,
and William Henry Chase Whiting. Also included is a Hill family genealogy and
a few other items. Some items are originals and others are photocopies. |
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The diary belongs to Sergeant D. W. Nelson,
Company I (Captain W. N. Doughty), 37th Regiment Indiana Veteran
Volunteer Infantry (Colonel George W. Hazzard), 3rd Brigade, 1st Division,
14th Army Corps, Department of the Ohio. The diary covers from his enlistment
in the regiment on 1861 until he was wounded at the Battle of Resaca during
the Atlanta Campaign in Georgia. (Thanks to Michael Goethals for this info). |
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D.H.
Strother - First Paper - Personal Recollections of the War D.H.
Strother - Second Paper - Pattersons Campaign - Personal Recollections of the
War D.H.
Strother - Third Paper - Balls Bluff - Personal Recollections of the
War D.H.
Strother - Fourth Paper - Expectancy - Personal Recollections of the War D.H.
Strother - Fifth Paper - Valley of the Shenandoah - Personal Recollections
of the War D.H.
Strother - Seventh Paper - Concentration - Personal Recollections of
the War D.H.
Strother - Eighth Paper - Cedar Mountain - Personal Recollections of the War D.H.
Strother - Ninth Paper - Groveton - Personal Recollections of the War |
He was with McClellan until the General was
relieved in November, at which time he returned to Banks' staff and saw
action in Louisiana at Port Hudson and on the Teche Campaign. He was in
Washington, unattached, during the Gettysburg Campaign, and in July 1863 was
promoted to Colonel of his regiment. |
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Thrilling narratives of Personal adventure,
exploits of scouts and spies, forlorn hopes, heroic Bravery, patient
endurance, imprisonments and hair breadth escapes, Romantic incidents, hand
to hand struggles, humorous and tragic Events, perilous journeys, bold
dashes, brilliant successes, Magnanimous actions, etc., on each side the line
during the Civil War. |
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Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican,
Indian and Civil Wars, 1894. |
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The Civil War diary of Captain Daniel A. Lowber of
Company A, 37th Wisconsin Infantry. The diary entries commence with July 25,
1864, with Lowber apparently in transit to his regiment after a temporary
furlough. He joins the regiment the day after the Battle of the Crater and
takes command on August 1, noting that his new command has only 18 men fit
for duty. In daily entries spanning the next five months, Lowber mentions
frequent picket and fatigue duty and notes his routine administrative duties
as well. He also mentions trading papers with a Confederate soldier between
the lines, his living quarters, church services, news of Sheridan's victories
in the Shenandoah Valley, the regiment's tally in the 1864 presidential
election, and Thanksgiving. Lowber also describes actions during several
battles, including perhaps most significantly the Battle of Peeble's Farm.
The diary entries cease with December 31, 1864 |
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Union soldier, member of the Minnesota
Infantry Regiment, 1st, Company F. Born in Randolph County, Indiana. Bond enlisted
in April 1861, was discharged shortly after and then re-enlisted on 22 August
1861. He was mustered out on 24 July 1865. He was wounded at the Battle of
Fredericksburg (1862). At the Battle of Petersburg (1864) Bond was captured
and sent to Andersonville Prison from which he escaped. |
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Consists of correspondence, mainly from
Daniel Butterfield Pease, to members of his family in Maine while serving
with Company G of the 12th Maine Infantry Regiment from 1864-1866. Pease's
letters were written from Camp Coburn, Maine; Galloups Island, Massachusetts;
and Augusta, Savannah, and Thomasville, Georgia and contain descriptions of
the different areas, his duties, the Civil War, and peace-keeping activities
during Reconstruction. The collection also contains a few letters from
Pease's brothers, Dixon and Plummer. |
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Reminiscences of California and the Civil
War (1894). |
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Diary of Capt. Daniel Hoge Bruce, Co. A,
51st Va. Inf. Regt., CSA. Bruce was captured at Waynesborough by Sheridan's
cavalry on March 2, 1865 and sent to Fort Delaware Prison. The diary contains
song lyrics, poems, autographs from fellow soldiers, and details on his
capture, imprisonment, and subsequent return home after the end of the war. |
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History of the 99th Indiana Infantry,
containing a diary of marches, incidents, biographies of officers and
complete rolls. |
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Civil War diary of Hatfield soldier Daniel
White Wells, covering the dates Oct. 2, 1862, through July 28, 1863. Includes
Battle of Port Hudson, during which he finished his 9-month service. Digital
donation courtesy of John F. Wells. |
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This is the diary of Darwin G. Palmer who
served with Company D, 101st Ohio Infantry during the Civil War. From
January-May 1865, he was a nurse at the U.S. Army General Hospital No. 3,
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. |
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Diary of Darwin H. Babbitt dated 1864. In
this diary, he discusses being under arrest with the Provost Guard, rejoining
his regiment, skirmishes, the Battle of the Wilderness, and the Battle of
Topotomoy Creek. Military Service Note: Babbitt, Darwin H. Ypsilanti.
Enlisted in company K, Fifth Cavalry, Aug. 21, 1862, at Detroit, for 3 years,
age 18. Mustered Sept. 2, 1862. Taken prisoner at Hawes' Shop, Va., May 28,
1864. Released Jan. 27, 1865. Mustered out at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., June
22, 1865. |
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A
diary kept by David B. Arthur (b. 1837) as 1st sergeant and 2nd lieutenant in
Co. I, 20th Wisconsin Infantry. Arthur was a lead miner, from Beetown, Grant
County, Wisconsin. He was mustered in to the 20th Wisconsin in August 1862
and served in that unit for the duration of the war, ultimately rising to 1st
lieutenant. The diary includes dated entries ranging from 20 October 1862 to
12 June 1863; during this time the regiment was attached to the Army of the
Frontier, serving in Missouri and Arkansas. Arthur's entries describe three
distinct expeditions or campaigns, the most important of which culminated in
the battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas (7 December 1862). |
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A Chautauqua boy in '61 and afterward;
reminiscences by David B. Parker, Second Lieutenant, Seventy-second New York,
Detailed Superintendent of the Mails of the Army of the Potomac, United
States Marshal, District of Virginia Chief Post Office Inspector. |
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"Our limbs are lost! Our country
saved!" A short sketch of the service and sacrifices of David B. Tanner. |
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David
Dixon Porter - Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885). David
Dixon Porter - Memoir of Commodore David Porter, USN, 1875. |
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This is the diary of David E. Curtis who
served with the 104th New York Infantry during the Civil War. He was wounded
at the Battle of the Wilderness, and subsequently hospitalized. The diary
covers February 1-October 12, 1864 and recounts the author’s experience in
camp, battle, and hospital. |
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Life and Letters of Admiral D. G. Farragut,
1879. |
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A sergeant in Company K, 43rd Indiana
Infantry Regiment, Reynolds writes in his diary from January 1 through
September 26, 1863. He records his activities in camp, the company's travels
on steamboats, and the skirmishes and battles in which he fought in
Mississippi and Arkansas during the Civil War. |
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Diary and daily journal written by David
Homer Bates. Bates worked in the telegraph office during the Lincoln
administration. He chronicles the movements of the Civil War as well as
noting important events of the day. It also gives a daily account of Bates
comings and goings in the Washington, D.C. area. |
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Civil War Diary written by David J. Minto
of the Ninety-Sixth Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry, for the year
1866. |
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David
James Palmer papers, November 1862 - November 1928 David
James Palmer papers, January 1863. David
James Palmer papers, January 1863-February 1887. David
James Palmer papers, August-December 1863. David
James Palmer papers, January-June 1864 David
James Palmer papers, July - December 1864. David
James Palmer papers, January 1864-May 1865 David
James Palmer papers, December 1864-May 1865 |
David James Palmer Papers describing the
war experiences of Palmer, who was from Washington County, Iowa and fought
with the 8th Iowa Infantry and later the 25th Iowa Infantry. He was severely
wounded in the Battle of Shiloh but recovered and was promoted to captain and
eventually lieutenant colonel and took part in the siege of Vicksburg and
Sherman's March to the Sea. After the war he was a state senator and railroad
commissioner. |
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My Diary Of Rambles with the 25th Mass. Volunteer
Infantry, Burnside's Coast Division; 18th Army Corps, Army of the James. |
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A Soldier's Diary - the Story of a
Volunteer, 1862-1865. |
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Sherman's March through the South. With
Sketches and Incidents of the Campaign (1865). |
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The Civil War letters of David R. Garrett,
detailing the adventures of the 6th Texas Cavalry, 1861-1865. |
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Reminiscences of the Civil War-
Andersonville. |
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Speeches and Addresses of the late Hon.
David S. Coddington, with a biographical sketch (1866). |
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Personal Memoirs of Major General David S.
Stanley, 1917. |
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Recollections of an Old Man, Seventy Years
in Dixie, 1910. |
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A Sketch of the 126th Regiment Pennsylvania
Volunteers, 1869. |
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Reminiscences of a prisoner of war and his
escape (1915) |
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Delia Locke Diary, 1862-1869. |
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A thrilling narrative of the suffering of
the Union refugees (1866) |
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Diary
and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes vol. 2, 1861-65 |
Rutherford B. Hayes kept a diary from age
twelve to his death at age 70 in 1893. He was one of only three presidents to
keep a diary while in office. The edited diaries and letters were published
in 1922 as a set of five volumes. This volume covers the Civil War years. |
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Diary, 24 July 1861 - 9 April 1862. Diary
written by Union soldier who recorded entries on an almost daily basis
beginning with his enlistment; includes descriptions of Annapolis, Md., where
he wrote that he had some talk with a real live slave, followed by Fort
Monroe, Va., and various locations in South Carolina. Description of
transport aboard a steamboat to a station off Port Royal, S.C.; the
bombardment of Confederate batteries in the harbor, and the landing of troops
at Hilton Head, 9 Dec. 1861, and on Edisto Island in early April 1862; Union
plundering of the Confederate countryside; on 8 Mar. 1862, he reports meeting
missionaries aboard the steamer Atlantic en route to Port Royal to establish
schools for former African-American slaves. Head also records his impressions
of several plantations and churches on Edisto Island (Charleston County,
S.C.) and expresses concern about the presence of Confederate troops in the
area. |
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Diary
of an unidentified Confederate soldier, February-June 1864 |
The Confederate Soldier who wrote the
diary/journal was actually an artilleryman who was a member of Guibor's
Missouri Artillery Battery, Storr's Artillery Battalion, assigned to French's
Division of Polks (later Manigault's) Corps during the Atlanta Campaign. (
Thanks to Michael Goethals for this info.) Contains accounts of movements and
operations of a Confederate unit in Mississippi and Alabama (February to May
1864) and during the Atlanta campaign (May to August 1864). Also contains a
few pages of personal accounts. |
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Diary
of Creed T. Davis, Private Second Company Richmond Howitzers and Prison
Diary of Creed T. Davis |
Papers, 1864-1875, of Creed T. Davis (d.
1915), chiefly consisting of a diary, 1864-1865, that he kept while serving
with the Richmond Howitzers, 2nd Company, in the Civil War. It is unclear
whether the diary is the original or a transcript. The record was given to
Robert Alonzo Brock (1839-1914) in 1875, along with a list of soldiers who
died from April to June 1865 at a Newport News military prison, where Davis
was kept after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox. |
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Diary
of George Benton Arnold dated 1863 |
Diary of George Benton Arnold dated 1863.
In this diary, he describes the movements of his regiment, chores, finances,
deserters (March 28), religion, books, the weather, a slave auction (May 4),
burning railroad stations and cotton (July 18), The Battle of Fredericksburg
(November 16-19), African Americans (November 17), and skirmishes. |
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Transcription
of Diary of John J. Mercer |
John J. Mercer, 1st Lieutenant, Company E,
78th Regiment, Illinois Volunteers, Georgia. |
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Diary of Lieutenant Adam B. Smith, March
11-July 4, 1863. Describes operations along the Tallahatchie River in
Mississippi and around Helena, including descriptions of engagements with
rebel forces and gunboat operations. Diary is concluded with a note written
by John G. Hudson relating the death of Smith on July 4, 1863, at Helena. |
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Diary
of Mary Henry 1864-1868 [transcription] Diary
of Mary Henry 1858-1863 [transcription] |
Diary of Mary Henry, daughter of the first
Smithsonian Secretary Joseph Henry. This diary spans the years of 1864-1868
and covers life in the Washington, D.C. Mary lived with her family in the
Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle, and witnessed the tumultuous
years of the Civil War, its impact on Washington and the reconstruction of
the country. Her entries include details of visitors to the Castle, her
father's work with the Smithsonian, and events of the Civil War |
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Orin M. Jameson, 17th Regiment Wisconsin
Volunteers. |
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Diary
of the campaign of the 4th Battalion Sharpshooters from Palmetto, Georgia |
Transcription of Diary of the campaign of
the 4th Battalion Sharpshooters from Palmetto, Georgia |
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Diary of the great rebellion. Containing a
complete summary of each day's events, from the inauguration of the rebellion
at Charleston, S. C., December 20th, 1860, to the 1st of January, 1862.
Prepared with great care from "Official reports" and files of the
New York and Philadelphia daily papers. |
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Diary
of the Paymaster of Fremont's Body Guard, 1861 Diary
of the Paymaster of Fremont's Body Guard, 1861(Transcript) |
Describes the expedition to Springfield,
including an account of the charge against Springfield and the return to St.
Louis. Contains frequent mentions of Major Charles Zagonyi [Karoly Zagonyi],
and information on marches and foraging expeditions. |
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Diary
of the War for Separation Copy 1 Diary
of the War for Separation Copy 2 Diary
of the War for Separation Copy 3 Diary
of the War for Separation Transcript |
Diary of the War for Separation, a Daily Chronicle
of the Principal Events and History of the Present Revolution, to Which is
Added Notes and Descriptions of All the Great Battles, Including Walker's
Narrative of the Battle of Shiloh. By H. C.Clarke, of Vicksburg, Miss. |
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Diary
of Unidentified Soldier of the 31st Iowa Infantry, September 4, 1862, to
September 30, 1864 |
Contains accounts of the affairs of the
31st Iowa Infantry from its organization in the fall of 1862 to its subsequent
service in Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia. Includes
accounts of the Yazoo Expedition, December 1862 to January 1863; expedition
against Fort Hindman, Arkansas; operations during the Vicksburg campaign,
including the sieges of Vicksburg and Jackson, Mississippi; the Battles of
Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge; engagement at Ringgold Gap; and
operations during the Atlanta campaign, including the Battle of Resaca, the
Siege of Atlanta, and the Battle of Jonesboro. Also includes information on
marches. The back of the diary contains postwar accounts of Orcutt and Bros.
Thus the diary may have been written by Noel P. Orcutt or Darius M. Orcutt,
both of whom served in the 31st Iowa Infantry during the war. |
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Diary
of Van S. Bennett: Jan. 1 - Feb. 19, 1864; misc. 1862-1863 Diary
of Van S. Bennett: Oct. 3 - 12, 1864 Diary
of Van S. Bennett: Oct. 13 - Nov. 16, 1864 Transcribed
diary of Van S. Bennett 1863 (only April 18, 1863 to July 4, 1863 |
Diaries (1863-1864) of Captain Van S.
Bennett of Company I, 12th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, giving accounts of
the Siege of Vicksburg and other campaigns while a member of Sherman's army
in Mississippi and Georgia, and his observations of the activities of the
Union soldiers he served with. Also included are his notebook containing
various accounts, orders for equipment, and lists of wounded. |
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Diary
of Volney S. Harris, Company M, 8th Cavalry, New York, Georgia |
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William H. Perkins 1865 (Sgt.)
"Alexander's" Baltimore Light Artillery. (US) Born at Lewistown, in
Frederick County, in 1841, he became a teacher, educating himself in local
schools. After the war he studied medicine at the University of Maryland and
the Long Island College Hospital of Medicine, in New York. He graduated in
1866. Moving to Hancock he established a very successful practice. |
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A woman's wartime journal; an account of
the passage over a Georgia plantation of Sherman's army on the march to the
sea, as recorded in the diary of Dolly Sumner Lunt (1918). |
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Correspondence, speeches, military orders
and records, financial and legal records, and other papers of Union Army
officers and soldiers concerning recruitment, enlistment, camp life, battle
engagements, military strategy, and distribution of military supplies. Other
subjects include diplomatic policy, abolition and slavery, and social
conditions in the South during its occupation by Union forces. Includes records
of the U.S. Navy Potomac Flotilla pertaining to communications in the
Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River region. |
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War Diary of a Union Woman in the South:
1860-63. George Washington Cable, ed. |
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Dr.
James Theodore Reeve, Private Journal, 1861-1862 Dr.
James Theodore Reeve, Private Journal, 1863-1864 Dr.
James Theodore Reeve, Private Journal, 1864-1865 Dr.
James Theodore Reeve, Miscellaneous Medical Records, 1863-1865, pt. 1 |
James T. Reeve Appleton doctor James T.
Reeve (1834-1906) was the surgeon of the 10th Wisconsin Infantry and later of
the 21st Wisconsin Infantry. His diaries encompass the years 1861 to 1865,
with several months missing. The first volume covers November 1, 1861 to May
5, 1862 and describes his first months in the army. At Chickamauga he refused
to leave the wounded and was captured. The second volume dates from December
18, 1863 to April 6, 1864, and describes his time in Libby Prison, Sherman's
advance on Atlanta, and the battles of Resaca and Kennesaw Mountain. The
third diary dates from October 1864 to December 1865 and describes Sherman's
March to the Sea, the campaign through the Carolinas, and Reeve's return to
Wisconsin. After the war he returned to Appleton, where he died in 1906. |
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The field diary of a Confederate soldier,
while serving with the Army of Northern Virginia, C. S. A. |
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Letters discussing camp life, discipline,
casualties, Confederate and Union generals, and statements by Confederate
deserters concerning low morale in the Army of Tennessee. |
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Primary Surgery of Gen. Sherman's Campaigns
,The Chicago Medical Examiner, Volume 7. |
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The Bugle Blast, or, Spirit of the conflict
: comprising naval and military exploits, dashing raids, heroic deeds,
thrilling incidents, sketches, anecdotes, etc., etc. |
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Four Years in Secessia - A Narrative of a
Residence at the South previous to and during the Southern Rebellion when the
writer escapes from Richmond, 1864. |
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Prison Experiences - An Unpublished
Narrative. Orleans County Monitor, 1899. |
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A Gettysburg Diary - Carroll’s Brigade and
the part it played in repulsing the “Tigers.” From the National Tribune,
1909. |
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A History of the Tenth Regiment, Vermont
Volunteers, with biographical sketches and Complete Roster, 1894. |
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A brief sketch of the first Monitor and its
inventor- a paper read before the Buffalo Historical Society, January 5, 1874
(1874). |
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The diary of Ebenezer E. Mason, a standard
leather bound pocket size edition with three dates per page that covers his
experiences from January through August 1864 as well as a few entries in
February 1865. The entries typically note the weather of the day as well
whether or not Congress was in session. The diary also includes a short poem
(original?) and some account information in the back. The diary contains a
pocket that holds a period newspaper clipping of an article Mason wrote for
the State Journal, making a defense for adopting a new constitution, as well
as several receipts and clippings. Ebenezer Erskine Mason was born August 29,
1829, in Maine. He married Elizabeth Thompson (1825-1913) prior to 1860.
Mason later became a local magistrate and a member of the Accotink Home
Guard, a company that remained loyal to the Federal Government throughout the
Civil War. Notably, Mason served as a delegate to the Second Wheeling
Convention and was sergeant of arms to the Senate in 1863. In 1864, Mason
served as delegate to the Restored Virginia Government Convention where a new
constitution was put in place that abolished slavery and recognized West
Virginia as a loyal state. Mason died in 1910 was buried in Fairfax County,
Virginia. |
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Edgar
A. Phelps – Civil War letters , 1861-1864 |
Resident
of Scio Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan, who served in Co. D., 20th
Michigan Infantry, during the Civil War. Correspondence, primarily with his
parents, describing his activities in the army. |
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Movements Of The Federal And Confederate
Armies; Chronological List Op Engagements; Reconstruction Proceedings;
Proclamations, Statistical Tables, Etc. |
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Reminiscences of the Old Navy, from the
Journals and Private Papers of Captain Edward Trenchard, and Rear-Admiral
Stephen Decatur Trenchard (1898). |
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The Southern Spy. Letters on the Policy and
Inauguration of the Lincoln War (1861). Written anonymously in Washington and
elsewhere. |
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The Seven Days' Battles In Front Of
Richmond. An Outline Narrative Of The Series Of Engagements Which Opened At
Mechanicsville, Near Richmond, On Thursday, June 26, 1862, And Resulted In
The Defeat And Retreat Of The Northern Army Under Major-General McClellan. |
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Life of Jefferson Davis - with a seceret
history of the Southern Confederacy, gathered behind the scenes in Richmond
(1869). |
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Camp Fire Stories - A Series of Sketches of
the Union army in the Southwest (1900). |
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Four years a scout and spy - Being a
narrative of the thrilling adventures, narrow escapes, noble daring, and amusing
incidents...as a scout and spy for the federal army (1866) |
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This collection consists of a single diary
(labeled Diary volume 2) written by Edward Cornelius Kinney. The diary
describes his experiences serving in Company F, 103rd Ohio Volunteers
Infantry, as a private soldier during the American Civil War. |
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Edward Chase, The Memorial life of General
William Tecumseh Sherman (1891) |
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Edward
Clifford Anderson Papers, 1845-1865 Edward
Clifford Anderson Papers, Diary, 1861-1862 Edward
Clifford Anderson Papers, Diary, Diary, 2 November 1863-13 November 1864 |
Anderson was an officer in the United
States Navy during the 1830s and 1840s, but apparently resigned to become a
planter in Georgia, residing in Savannah. During the Civil War, he served as
a Confederate Army officer, initially as a purchasing agent in England and
later commanding the river batteries in the Georgia Military District with
headquarters in Savannah. After the war, he was mayor of Savannah,
representative of Hope Mutual Insurance Company of New York, and director of
the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad Company and the Central Railroad and Canal
Company of Georgia. |
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Reminiscences - Edward Epinetus Knight,
15th North Carolina Infantry Regiment, Company I. |
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Edward
F. Winslow memoir, 1863-1865 |
Papers of Edward Winslow, who mustered into
Co. F, 4th Iowa Cavalry in November 1861, as a captain. The 4th Iowa later
saw action at the siege of Vicksburg, the taking of Jackson, Mississippi, and
the battle of Brice's Cross Roads. Winslow was promoted to the rank of
colonel on July 4, 1863, and given command of the cavalry forces of the XV
Corps. In December of 1964, he was brevetted brigadier-general for gallantry
in action. After the hostilities ceased, Winslow was put in command of the
Atlanta military district. He was discharged from the Army on August 10,
1865. |
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Reminiscences of military service in the
Forty-third regiment, Massachusetts infantry, during the great Civil war,
1862-63 (1883). |
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Soldier
from Lenawee County, Michigan who served in Co. A, 4th Michigan Infantry in
the Civil War. Family letters written while serving in the Civil War,
including critical comments on Abraham Lincoln. |
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The diary of Captain Edward Hill
conveys the pleasures, hardships, and heroism of a Union soldier who served
in the Civil War's climactic showdown in Virginia between the armies of
General Ulysses Grant and Robert E. Lee. Hill and his regiment, the 16th
Michigan Infantry, took part in many of the Army of the Potomac's key
battles, and in later life Hill wrote about the Battle of Fredericksburg.
Information about his daily wartime activities, however, is only available
from February 16, 1864 to July 27, 1864 through jottings in his diary. At the
beginning of this period Hill enjoyed a leisurely return to his regiment
after a brief furlough in Michigan, socializing with friends and going to the
theater in Baltimore and Washington. In mid-April 1864 he rejoined his men at
their camp near Bealton Station, Virginia, and during the relentless Union
offensive of May they took part in the Battles of the Wilderness,
Spotsylvania, and North Anna. Hill was wounded near Cold Harbor on June 1,
1864 prior to the Battle of Cold Harbor and would later receive the Medal of
Honor for his heroic leadership. The diary continues during Hill's recovery,
chronicling his progress and daily visitors while he recuperated at Armory
Square Hospital in Washington, D.C. |
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The is the diary of Edward Holcomb who
served with the 111th New York Infantry during the Civil War. It contains
details of this common soldier’s life, January 1-December 31, 1863. |
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Historical Sketch of the Fifteenth Regiment
New Jersey Volunteers, 1st Brigade, 1st Division, 6th Corps, 1880. |
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Sketch of the Charleston Light Dragoons,
from the earliest formation of the corps, 1888. |
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Edward
Michael Watson – Letters, 1862 January-June Edward
Michael Watson – 1861 September-December Edward
Michael Watson – Letters, 1862 July-December Edward
Michael Watson – Letters, 1863 July-December Edward
Michael Watson – Letters, 1864 |
Captain in Ninth Michigan Cavalry, during
the Civil War, later Marquette, Michigan businessman. Civil War letters
describing in detail army life and training and various engagements in which
he participated |
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Extracts from letters to A.B.T. from Edward
P. Williams, during his service in the civil war, 1862-1864 (1903). |
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Edward
Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles
Sumner, Vol. 1, 1811-1838 (1877) Edward
Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles
Sumner, Vol. 2, 1838-1845 (1893) Edward
Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles
Sumner, Vol. 3, 1845-1860 (1894) Edward
Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles
Sumner, Vol. 4, 1860-1874 (1893) |
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Military Memoirs of a Confederate- A
Critical Narrative, 1907 |
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Voluminous postwar correspondence with
other officers concerning a proposed history of Longstreet's corps and
preparation of Alexander's memoirs (published 1907), drafts of the manuscript
and other writings, speeches, and collected histories of various army units. |
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Letter inquiring about Confederate losses
in Virginia; list of the artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia; letter
declining to attend a reunion of Confederate veterans, 1905. |
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William T. Sherman (1905). |
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Diary of sixteen year old soldier Edward T.
Beall, covering period September 1862 -October 1863. Very brief entries
concerning regimental activities (miles marched, location of camps, etc.).
The volume begins with a short biographical sketch of Beall's early life. The
volume also contains poetry/song: "When This Cruel War is Over",
"The Little Girl", "Lieutenant General Jackson" |
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Edward
W. Allen Papers June 1862-April 1864 Edward
W. Allen Papers May-August 1864 Edward
W. Allen Papers September-December 1864 Edward
W. Allen Papers 1865-1866 and undated |
Correspondence, diary entries, and other
papers of Edward W. Allen during the Civil War. Most of the letters are from
Allen to his parents in 1864 and 1865. Also included are letters he wrote to
friends and letters his parents wrote to him, as well as some pages of diary
entries, which Allen apparently sent to his parents, and other papers.
Letters discuss camp life, supplies, health, troop movements, and battles.
Some letters also discuss the army service, disappearance, imprisonment,
probable death, and return home of Edward Allen's brother, Fred Allen, who
served in the 36th Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. Edward W. Allen was at
Camp Randall in Wisconsin, February 1863-February 1864; at Vicksburg, Miss.,
March 1864; at Pulaski, Tenn., May 1864; near Atlanta, Ga., June-September,
1864; in Savannah, Ga., December 1864; Columbia, S.C., February 1865; in
Goldsboro, N.C., March-April 1865; in Virginia, May 1865; in Louisville, Ky.,
June-July 1865; and back in Wisconsin, July-August 1865. The earliest and the
latest letters are from Edward Allen's friend, George W. Hyde, who wrote in
1862 and 1863 from Arkansas and Missouri where he was apparently serving with
a Wisconsin regiment and in 1866 from Elmira, N.Y., where he was apparently
still in the army. Edward W. Allen of Eau Claire, Wis., was a sergeant and
then second lieutenant in Company H of the 16th Regiment, Wisconsin Infantry
Volunteers, during the Civil War. He was the son of James and Emily Allen. He
had several siblings, including James F. (Fred) Allen , who served in Company
K, 36th Regiment of Wisconsin Volunteers. |
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Life and Letters of Charles Russell Lowell,
1907. Presents the biography and collected correspondence of the nephew of
poet and abolitionist leader James Russell Lowell. The volume spans both the
younger Lowell's collegiate education and his military service in the
American Civil War. A native Bostonian, Charles Russell Lowell (1835–1864)
was first in the Harvard class of 1854. He joined the Union ranks a fervent
abolitionist and fought with near-reckless zeal until his death in battle at
Cedar Creek, Virginia, in October 1864. Lowell served on Gen. George B.
McClellan's staff in 1862, fought John S. Mosby's Confederate raiders in 1863
and 1864, and participated in the 1864 Shenandoah Valley campaign as cavalry
brigade commander. |
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Pocket diary including daily entries and
expense ledger. |