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1863/08/04 - 1864/06/11
Gilpin, Sarah Lydia, 1802-1894
Diary of Sarah Lydia Gilpin 1863-1864
Pages numbered 193 - 382 April 22: Author's mother's birthday June 8: The author's mother dies.
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1864/06/12 - 1865/01/24
Sarah Lydia Gilpin Diary 1864-1865
Pages numbered 383 - 664 In this volume, the author describes efforts to help freed slaves. 21 January 1865: "…brought an appeal for aid for the poor Negroes liberated by Sherman who are suffering in great need of everything. It is a gigantic...
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1865/07/10 - 1866/02/17
Diary of Sarah Gilpin
Pages numbered 857 - 1139
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1867/08/06 -1868/03/16
Sarah Lydia Gilpin Diary 1867-1868
Pages numbered 1444 - 1675 Note: Last page not numbered August 21, 1867: The author records this date as "my birthday and my dear father's death-day."
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1868/03/17 - 1868/12/31
Diary of Sarah Lydia Gilpin 1868
56 p. numbered 1676 - 1732 32 p. blank 103 p. Unnumbered diary pages
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1869/09/02 - 1870/05/26
Diary of Sarah Lydia Gilpin 1869-1870
Pages numbered 193 - 433
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1871/01/01 - 1871/08/21
Diary of Sarah Lydia Gilpin 1871
Pages numbered 646 - 862
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1871/08/22 - 1872/05/18
Diary of Sarah Lydia Gilpin 1872
Pages numbered 863 - 1095
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1874/10/23 - 1875/06/12
Diary of Sarah Lydia Gilpin 1874
Pages numbered 1817 - 2032
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1879/05/13 - 1879/12/25
Diary of Sarah Lydia Gilpin 1879
Pages numbered 4020 - 5087 Note: Break in numbering. 4099 followed by 5000
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1917/06/03-1918/11/05
Shepp, William, fl. 1917-1919
William Shepp Diary 1917-1918
3 June 1917 - 2 June 1918. Begins with Shepp's enlistment on 5 June 1917. Mentions daily activities, such as calisthenics, army drills, physical examinations and vaccinations, attendance at church services, Bible study, and French class, and...
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1918/06/03 - 1918/10/20
William Shepp Diary 1918
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1918/12/08 - 1919/04/12
William Shepp Diary 1918-1919
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1919/04/20 - 1919/08/05
Willaim Shepp Diary 1919
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1826
Contemporains & Etranges, fl. 1826
Colored engraving of Thomas Jefferson
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[n.d.]
Armstrong, Halleck, fl. 1865
to: Wife, Daughters & Son.
Marked "No 1"; seemingly first letter sent to family while on post. Reports on news about Sherman & Charleston having fallen.
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1865/02/24
to: Mary [Armstrong, his wife].
Reporting on his arrival at the headquarters of the 9th Corps.
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to: Wife.
Reports that he is now at the front, describes conditions at front & shells bursting in air around him, spreads news of capture of Wilmington.
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1865/02/27
to: Mary [Armstrong].
Describes being under enemy fire, ill health due to cold.
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1865/03/01
Describes how he felt being under fire.
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[1865]/03/02
to: [?wife?].
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1865/03/04
Reports on rumor that Sherman has been defeated, hopes it isn't true, talks about great number of dead and burial procedures, remarks on slavery as the sin of the South.
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1865/03/05
Discusses his commanders & their religiosity, his preaching & religious ministering at the camp.
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1865/03/07
Talks about systematic pilfering of the Sanitary Commission by high ranking soldiers; also reports on seeing black troops: "Today for the first time I saw whole regiments of black troops…They appear quite as well on parade as their more thoroughly...
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1865/03/08
Reports various rumors about Sheridan's maneuvers. Also reports on nearby black uprising: "Our allies, the darkies, are evidently burning out their beloved Masters…"
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