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1862 Diary

Henry Cook writes daily entries on camp life, including rations, illness, gambling, picket duty, construction projects, pay, and promotions. He includes information on military actions (battles at Fort Donelson, Fort Macon, and [Pea?] Ridge), as well...

GLC03958.01

1864 Diary

In this diary, dated from January through November, 1864, Henry Cook documents life in the US Signal Corps. Stationed near New Bern, NC, Cook writes of matters of daily life--meals, rations, guard duty, trips to town, construction projects--and of...

GLC03958.03

[Diary of James Hannegan of the 5th Ohio Cavalry]

Diary is an autograph manuscript signed, neatly written in pencil, covering 1 January 1862-31 December 1862. Writes about the battle being raged at Fort Donelson in his entry of 15 February, reporting that the "citizens are in a terrible state of...

GLC04129.01

[Diary of James Hannegan of the 5th Ohio Cavalry]

Diary is an autograph manuscript signed, neatly written in pencil, covering 1 January 1863-15 March 1863. At the end of the book Hannegan includes some accounting pages. Enclosed within the diary is a bookmark depicting an eagle and a shield, with...

GLC04129.02

Diary of John Moore

Excerpt:
Diary entries
12 June 1852: "The Tower has been so often described that it is unnecessary to enter into any description of it. There is no place in the world, perhaps where one can see so many specimens of all the varieties of arms that...

GLC04192.06

[Diary of Franklin W. Fuller]

January: Writes of the cold weather. Perry received his discharge papers. The weather ranges from pleasant to rainy and cold. Has played in parades.

February: Describes the weather and notes that they were ordered to be ready to march with eight...

GLC03523.42.70

Soldier's diary, Co. I, 7th Regt. Vermont Vols. re: Mobile, with photograph

The diary is about 65 pp. Includes a postwar cabinet photograph of an elderly Vaughn in uniform.

GLC03856

[Diary of Robert Moses kept during the French and Indian War]

Moses served in a New Hampshire regiment under the command of Colonel Joseph Blanchard. He describes, sometimes in graphic detail, accounts of fighting Indians and the French in New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire during the early...

GLC04944

[James B. McPherson diary describing early Union successes in the western theatre.]

Notebook with McPherson's diary discussing the western theatre under Grant, with some 1861 diary entries relating to Fort Donelson, diagrams on making pickets, lists of artillery at different forts, and a hand-drawn map of Chickasaw (from 1864)...

GLC03746.01

Diary of Lt. Commander Edward Simpson

Diary of captaincy of the "Submarine Battery 'Passaic'". Details attacks upon Charleston, Fort Moultrie and Battery Gregg; inner workings of a Monitor and intraservice rivalries. Quarter calf, marbled boards, pencil loops.

The USS Passaic, one of...

GLC05911.04

[Mississippi cotton plantation diary and journal]

Signed in inner front cover in August 1850, where English notes that his father, James English, moved from Kingsport, Tennessee to Madison County, Alabama in 1818. Records that James took him, and left his sister in Salem, North Carolina, and his...

GLC05496

1863 Diary

GLC06160.01

[Civil War diary of United States Christian Commission minister]

Contains ten printed pages outlining duties of Christian Commission delegates, listing local Commission agencies, and listing members and executive committee members of the Commission. Includes 70 handwritten pages of Herring's journal. Pages 71...

GLC06210

Diary [June 1863 to Sept. 1863.]

He records the weather and describes his daily activities. The most interesting entries take place in July when he describes Vicksburg. He also tells the story of how a group of Rebel prisoners surrenderd.

GLC06245.02

Diary [September 1864]

He describes the weather and his daily activities which include being on guard and other work. He talks about the mail he received and any notable news he has learned. He mentions a fight on Sept. 12th very briefly.

GLC06245.03

Diary [September 1864]

He records the weather in each entry. A notable entries occurs on Sept. 16th when he describes the death of his friend Delano.

GLC06245.04

Diary [October 1864]

He records the weather in each entry. He spends a great deal of time on the weather in this one. He talks about the mail he received and activities like going on picket and listening to a sermon.

GLC06245.05

Diary [July-Dec. 1865]

He records the weather every day and mentions the mail he receives.On July 22, he mentions a fellow soldier whose body they were unable to find. He often goes through his day, saying who he had dinner with and any other notable activities.

GLC06245.07

Journal of the Southern campaign

The manuscript consists of 2 volumes (total 414 p.) Battle content on Antietam, Fredericksburg and Vicksburg. Also mentions contrabands and General Ambrose Burnside. Pope belonged to Co. I, 35th Massachusetts Volunteers.

GLC06266.01

Journal of the Southern campaign 1862-1863

GLC06266.01.01

Journal of the Southern campaign 1863-1864

GLC06266.01.02

[Diary of an unknown officer, 54th United States Colored Troops]

An unknown soldier writes from various encampments and locations, including Fort Smith, Arkansas. Contains entries discussing various aspects of the Civil War, fellow soldiers, weather, and location. States that on 20 December 1864, Samuel Perkins...

GLC06270

Mexican War and post-war diary

Part one, crudely bound, includes vignettes about people Porterfield encountered, a pen and ink sketch of Rancho Buena Vista, and a rudimentary genealogy. Part two, unbound, begins in April 1848 and records his travels and activities after the war...

GLC06299

Wallet diary.

Diary contains detailed accounts of weather, appointments, etc.
In the entries for December 24 and following, Emerick records his final arrangements to leave for the South and his journey to join his regiment.

GLC06738.01

[Diary]

Small daily diary. Diary entries with almanac pages at the beginning and cash account pages at the end.
He describes the weather in most entries and gives tidbits about the progress of the war. He mentions captures and the taking of prisoners...

GLC06738.02