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| diaries of the civil war: Diary of a Contraband William Benjamin Gould, 2002 The heart of this book is the remarkable Civil War diary of the author’s great-grandfather, William Benjamin Gould, an escaped slave who served in the United States Navy from 1862 until the end of the war. The diary vividly records Gould’s activity as part of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron off the coast of North Carolina and Virginia; his visits to New York and Boston; the pursuit to Nova Scotia of a hijacked Confederate cruiser; and service in European waters pursuing Confederate ships constructed in Great Britain and France. Gould’s diary is one of only three known diaries of African American sailors in the Civil War. It is distinguished not only by its details and eloquent tone (often deliberately understated and sardonic), but also by its reflections on war, on race, on race relations in the Navy, and on what African Americans might expect after the war. The book includes introductory chapters that establish the context of the diary narrative, an annotated version of the diary, a brief account of Gould’s life in Massachusetts after the war, and William B. Gould IV’s thoughts about the legacy of his great-grandfather and his own journey of discovery in learning about this remarkable man. |
| diaries of the civil war: Josie Underwood's Civil War Diary Josie Underwood, 2009-03-20 A well-educated, outspoken member of a politically prominent family in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Josie Underwood (1840--1923) left behind one of the few intimate accounts of the Civil War written by a southern woman sympathetic to the Union. This vivid portrayal of the early years of the war begins several months before the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861. The Philistines are upon us, twenty-year-old Josie writes in her diary, leaving no question about the alarm she feels when Confederate soldiers occupy her once-peaceful town. Offering a unique perspective on the tensions between the Union and the Confederacy, Josie reveals that Kentucky was a hotbed of political and military action, particularly in her hometown of Bowling Green, known as the Gibraltar of the Confederacy. Located along important rail and water routes that were vital for shipping supplies in and out of the Confederacy, the city linked the upper South's trade and population centers and was strategically critical to both armies. Capturing the fright and frustration she and her family experienced when Bowling Green served as the Confederate army's headquarters in the fall of 1861, Josie tells of soldiers who trampled fields, pilfered crops, burned fences, cut down trees, stole food, and invaded homes and businesses. In early 1862, Josie's outspoken Unionist father, Warner Underwood, was ordered to evacuate the family's Mount Air estate, which was later destroyed by occupying forces. Wartime hardships also strained relationships among Josie's family, neighbors, and friends, whose passionate beliefs about Lincoln, slavery, and Kentucky's secession divided them. Published for the first time, Josie Underwood's Civil War Diary interweaves firsthand descriptions of the political unrest of the day with detailed accounts of an active social life filled with travel, parties, and suitors. Bringing to life a Unionist, slave-owning young woman who opposed both Lincoln's policies and Kentucky's secession, the diary dramatically chronicles the physical and emotional traumas visited on Josie's family, community, and state during wartime. |
| diaries of the civil war: Sam Richards's Civil War Diary Samuel P. Richards, 2009 This previously unpublished diary is the best-surviving firsthand account of life in Civil War-era Atlanta. Bookseller Samuel Pearce Richards (1824-1910) kept a diary for sixty-seven years. This volume excerpts the diary from October 1860, just before the presidential election of Abraham Lincoln, through August 1865, when the Richards family returned to Atlanta after being forced out by Sherman's troops and spending a period of exile in New York City. The Richardses were among the last Confederate loyalists to leave Atlanta. Sam's recollections of the Union bombardment, the evacuation of the city, the looting of his store, and the influx of Yankee forces are riveting. Sam was a Unionist until 1860, when his sentiments shifted in favor of the Confederacy. However, as he wrote in early 1862, he had no ambition to acquire military renown and glory. Likewise, Sam chafed at financial setbacks caused by the war and at Confederate policies that seemed to limit his freedom. Such conflicted attitudes come through even as Sam writes about civic celebrations, benefit concerts, and the chaotic optimism of life in a strategically critical rebel stronghold. He also reflects with soberness on hospitals filled with wounded soldiers, the threat of epidemics, inflation, and food shortages. A man of deep faith who liked to attend churches all over town, Sam often commments on Atlanta's religious life and grounds his defense of slavery and secession in the Bible. Sam owned and rented slaves, and his diary is a window into race relations at a time when the end of slavery was no longer unthinkable. Perhaps most important, the diary conveys the tenor of Sam's family life. Both Sam and his wife, Sallie, came from families divided politically and geographically by war. They feared for their children's health and mourned for relatives wounded and killed in battle. The figures in Sam Richards's Civil War Diary emerge as real people; the intimate experience of the Civil War home front is conveyed with great power. |
| diaries of the civil war: Keep the Days Steven M. Stowe, 2018-04-02 Americans wrote fiercely during the Civil War. War surprised, devastated, and opened up imagination, taking hold of Americans' words as well as their homes and families. The personal diary—wildly ragged yet rooted in day following day—was one place Americans wrote their war. Diaries, then, have become one of the best-known, most-used sources for exploring the life of the mind in a war-torn place and time. Delving into several familiar wartime diaries kept by women of the southern slave-owning class, Steven Stowe recaptures their motivations to keep the days close even as war tore apart the brutal system of slavery that had benefited them. Whether the diarists recorded thoughts about themselves, their opinions about men, or their observations about slavery, race, and warfare, Stowe shows how these women, by writing the immediate moment, found meaning in a changing world. In studying the inner lives of these unsympathetic characters, Stowe also explores the importance—and the limits—of historical empathy as a condition for knowing the past, demonstrating how these plain, first-draft texts can offer new ways to make sense of the world in which these Confederate women lived. |
| diaries of the civil war: The War Outside My Window Janet Elizabeth Croon, 2018-06-01 A remarkable account of the collapse of the Old South and the final years of a young boy’s privileged but afflicted life. LeRoy Wiley Gresham was born in 1847 to an affluent slave-holding family in Macon, Georgia. After a horrific leg injury left him an invalid, the educated, inquisitive, perceptive, and exceptionally witty twelve-year-old began keeping a diary in 1860—just as secession and the Civil War began tearing the country and his world apart. He continued to write even as his health deteriorated until both the war and his life ended in 1865. His unique manuscript of the demise of the Old South is published here for the first time in The War Outside My Window. LeRoy read books, devoured newspapers and magazines, listened to gossip, and discussed and debated important social and military issues with his parents and others. He wrote daily for five years, putting pen to paper with a vim and tongue-in-cheek vigor that impresses even now, more than 150 years later. His practical, philosophical, and occasionally Twain-like hilarious observations cover politics and the secession movement, the long and increasingly destructive Civil War, family pets, a wide variety of hobbies and interests, and what life was like at the center of a socially prominent wealthy family in the important Confederate manufacturing center of Macon. The young scribe often voiced concern about the family’s pair of plantations outside town, and recorded his interactions and relationships with servants as he pondered the fate of human bondage and his family’s declining fortunes. Unbeknownst to LeRoy, he was chronicling his own slow and painful descent toward death in tandem with the demise of the Southern Confederacy. He recorded—often in horrific detail—an increasingly painful and debilitating disease that robbed him of his childhood. The teenager’s declining health is a consistent thread coursing through his fascinating journals. “I feel more discouraged [and] less hopeful about getting well than I ever did before,” he wrote on March 17, 1863. “I am weaker and more helpless than I ever was.” Morphine and a score of other “remedies” did little to ease his suffering. Abscesses developed; nagging coughs and pain consumed him. Alternating between bouts of euphoria and despondency, he often wrote, “Saw off my leg.” The War Outside My Window, edited and annotated by Janet Croon with helpful footnotes and a detailed family biographical chart, captures the spirit and the character of a young privileged white teenager witnessing the demise of his world even as his own body slowly failed him. Just as Anne Frank has come down to us as the adolescent voice of World War II, LeRoy Gresham will now be remembered as the young voice of the Civil War South. Winner, 2018, The Douglas Southall Freeman Award |
| diaries of the civil war: The Private Mary Chesnut Mary Boykin Chesnut, Comer Vann Woodward, Elisabeth Muhlenfeld, 1984 Pulitzer Prize-winning historian C. Vann Woodward and Chesnut's biographer Elisabeth Muhlenfeld present here the previously unpublished Civil War diaries of Mary Boykin Chesnut. The ideal diarist, Mary Chesnut was at the right place at the right time with the right connections. Daughter of one senator from South Carolina and wife of another, she had kin and friends all over the Confederacy and knew intimately its political and military leaders. At Montgomery when the new nation was founded, at Charleston when the war started, and at Richmond during many crises, she traveled extensively during the war. She watched a world literally kicked to pieces and left the most vivid account we have of the death throes of a society. The diaries, filled with personal revelations and indiscretions, are indispensable to an appreciation of our most famous Southern literary insight into the Civil War experience. |
| diaries of the civil war: Emilie Davis’s Civil War Judith Giesberg, 2016-06-08 Emilie Davis was a free African American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War. She worked as a seamstress, attended the Institute for Colored Youth, and was an active member of her community. She lived an average life in her day, but what sets her apart is that she kept a diary. Her daily entries from 1863 to 1865 touch on the momentous and the mundane: she discusses her own and her community’s reactions to events of the war, such as the Battle of Gettysburg, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the assassination of President Lincoln, as well as the minutiae of social life in Philadelphia’s black community. Her diaries allow the reader to experience the Civil War in “real time” and are a counterpoint to more widely known diaries of the period. Judith Giesberg has written an accessible introduction, situating Davis and her diaries within the historical, cultural, and political context of wartime Philadelphia. In addition to furnishing a new window through which to view the war’s major events, Davis’s diaries give us a rare look at how the war was experienced as a part of everyday life—how its dramatic turns and lulls and its pervasive, agonizing uncertainty affected a northern city with a vibrant black community. |
| diaries of the civil war: Notes from a Colored Girl Karsonya Wise Whitehead, 2014-05-14 This historical biography provides a scholarly analysis of the personal diaries of a young, freeborn mulatto woman during the Civil War years. In Notes from a Colored Girl, Karsonya Wise Whitehead examines the life and experiences of Emilie Frances Davis through a close reading of three pocket diaries she kept from 1863 to 1865. Whitehead explores Davis’s worldviews and politics, her perceptions of both public and private events, her personal relationships, and her place in Philadelphia’s free black community in the nineteenth century. The book also includes a six-chapter historical reconstruction of Davis’s life. While Davis’s entries provide brief, daily snapshots of her life, Whitehead interprets them in ways that illuminate nineteenth-century black American women’s experiences. Whitehead’s contribution of edited text and original narrative fills a void in scholarly documentation of women who dwelled in spaces between white elites, black entrepreneurs, and urban dwellers of every race and class. Drawing on scholarly traditions from history, literature, feminist studies, and sociolinguistics, Whitehead investigates Davis’s diary both as a complete literary artifact and in terms of her specific daily entries. With few primary sources written by black women during this time in history, Davis’s diary is a rare and extraordinarily valuable historical artifact. |
| diaries of the civil war: The Diary of a Civil War Bride Kristen Brill, 2017-10-18 Lucy Wood Butler's diary provides a compelling account of an ordinary woman's struggle to come to terms with realities of war on the Confederate home front. Married at the start of the war, she would become a widow by mid-1863; her account of life in the Confederacy explores her life in Virginia, her mourning period for her deceased husband, and her views on the waning prospect of Confederate victory. Now available in book form for the first time, The Diary of a Civil War Bride brings to light a vital archival resource that reveals the mindset of women in the Civil War South. |
| diaries of the civil war: A Woman's Civil War Cornelia Peake McDonald, 1992 Cornelia Peake McDonald kept a diary during the Civil War (1861- 1865) at her husband's request, but some entries were written between the lines of printed books due to a shortage of paper and other entries were lost. In 1875, she assembled her scattered notes and records of the war period into a blank book to leave to her children. The diary entries describe civilian life in Winchester, Va., occupation by Confederate troops prior to the 1st Manassas, her husband's war experiences, the Valley campaigns and occupation of Winchester and her home by Union troops, the death of her baby girl, the family's refugee life in Lexington, reports of battles elsewhere, and news of family and friends in the army. |
| diaries of the civil war: Inside Lincoln's White House Michael Burlingame, John R. Turner Ettlinger, 1999-02-01 On 18 April 1861, assistant presidential secretary John Hay recorded in his diary the report of several women that some young Virginian long haired swaggering chivalrous of course. . . and half a dozen others including a daredevil guerrilla from Richmond named Ficklin would do a thing within forty eight hours that would ring through the world. The women feared that the Virginian planned either to assassinate or to capture the president. Calling this a harrowing communication, Hay continued his entry: They went away and I went to the bedside of the Chief couché. I told him the yarn; he quietly grinned. This is but one of the dramatic entries in Hay’s Civil War diary, presented here in a definitive edition by Michael Burlingame and John R. Turner Ettlinger. Justly deemed the most intimate record we will ever have of Abraham Lincoln in the White House, the Hay diary is, according to Burlingame and Ettlinger, one of the richest deposits of high-grade ore for the smelters of Lincoln biographers and Civil War historians. While the Cabinet diaries of Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Gideon Welles also shed much light on Lincoln’s presidency, as does the diary of Senator Orville Hickman Browning, none of these diaries has the literary flair of Hay’s, which is, as Lincoln’s friend Horace White noted, as breezy and sparkling as champagne. An aspiring poet, Hay recorded events in a scintillating style that the lawyer-politician diarists conspicuously lacked. Burlingame and Ettlinger’s edition of the diary is the first to publish the complete text of all of Hay’s entries from 1861 through 1864. In 1939 Tyler Dennett published Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay, which, as Civil War historian Allan Nevins observed, was rather casually edited. This new edition is essential in part because Dennett omitted approximately 10 percent of Hay’s 1861–64 entries. Not only did the Dennett edition omit important parts of the diaries, it also introduced some glaring errors. More than three decades ago, John R. Turner Ettlinger, then in charge of Special Collections at the Brown University Library, made a careful and literal transcript of the text of the diary, which involved deciphering Hay’s difficult and occasionally obscure writing. In particular, passages were restored that had been canceled, sometimes heavily, by the first editors for reasons of confidentiality and propriety. Ettlinger’s text forms the basis for the present edition, which also incorporates, with many additions and much updating by Burlingame, a body of notes providing a critical apparatus to the diary, identifying historical events and persons. |
| diaries of the civil war: All for the Union Elisha Hunt Rhodes, 2010-11-17 All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, featured throughout Ken Burns' PBS documentary The Civil War. Rhodes enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a twenty-three-year-old colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted in The Civil War will recognize his accounts of those campaigns, which remain outstanding for their clarity and detail. Most of all, Rhodes's words reveal the motivation of a common Yankee foot soldier, an otherwise ordinary young man who endured the rigors of combat and exhausting marches, short rations, fear, and homesickness for a salary of $13 a month and the satisfaction of giving all for the union. |
| diaries of the civil war: The Cormany Diaries James Mohr, 1982-12-15 This unique pair of diaries offers an unforgettable account of the life of an average Northern family coping with the dangers and tensions of the Civil War. There were thousands like them, but few left such a clear and indelible record of their experiences.Rachel Cormany (nee Bowman) met Samuel Cormany at Otterbein University in Ohio. After her husband enlisted in a cavalry unit, she writes poignantly of her anxieties, poverty, and loneliness. Samuel, on the other hand, is ambitious in his military career, and tells enthusiastically about his engagements that include camp life, cavalry raids, army politics, and his battles with alcohol. Editor James C. Mohr has arranged the diaries so that the voices of husband and wife alternate, and his notes enlighten many of the issues relating to the diarists and their daily lives. |
| diaries of the civil war: Marching with the First Nebraska August Scherneckau, 2007 German immigrant August Scherneckau served with the First Nebraska Volunteers from 1862 through 1865. Depicting the unit's service in Missouri, Arkansas, and Nebraska Territory, he offers detail, insight, and literary quality matched by few other accounts of the Civil War in the West. His observations provide new perspective on campaigns, military strategy, leadership, politics, ethnicity, emancipation, and many other topics. |
| diaries of the civil war: The Civil War Diary of a Common Soldier Terrence J. Winschel, 2001-05-01 William Wiley was typical of most soldiers who served in the armies of the North and South during the Civil War. A poorly educated farmer from Peoria, he enlisted in the summer of 1862 in the 77th Illinois Infantry, a unit that participated in most of the major campaigns waged in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Alabama. Recognizing that the great conflict would be a defining experience in his life, Wiley attempted to maintain a diary during his years of service. Frequent illnesses kept him from the ranks for extended periods of time, and he filled the many gaps in his diary after the war. When viewed as a postwar memoir rather than a period diary, Wiley's narrative assumes great importance as it weaves a fascinating account of the army life of Billy Yank. Rather than focus on the noble and heroic aspects of war, Wiley reveals how basic the lives of most soldiers actually were. He describes at length his experiences with sickness, both on land and at sea, and the monotony of daily military life. He seldom mentions army leaders, evidence of how little private soldiers knew of them or the larger drama in which they played a part. Instead, he writes fondly of his small circle of regimental friends, fills his pages with refreshing anecdotes, records troop movements, details contact with civilians, and describes the appearance of the countryside through which he passed. In the epilogue, Terrence J. Winschel recounts Wiley's complex and often frustrating struggle to obtain his military pension after the war. Wiley was an ingenious misspeller, and his words are transcribed just as he wrote them more than 130 years ago. Through his simple language, we come to know and care for this common man who made a common soldier. His story transcends the barriers of time and distance, and places the reader in the midst of men who experienced both the horror and the tedium of war. Winschel's rich annotation fleshes out Wiley's narrative and provides an enlightening historical perspective. Scholars and buffs alike, especially those fascinated by operations in the lower Mississippi Valley and along the Gulf Coast, will relish Wiley's honest portrait of the ordinary serviceman's Civil War. |
| diaries of the civil war: The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, 2014-08-15 Gideon Welles’s 1861 appointment as secretary of the navy placed him at the hub of Union planning for the Civil War and in the midst of the powerful personalities vying for influence in Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet. Although Welles initially knew little of naval matters, he rebuilt a service depleted by Confederate defections, planned actions that gave the Union badly needed victories in the war’s early days, and oversaw a blockade that weakened the South’s economy. Perhaps the hardest-working member of the cabinet, Welles still found time to keep a detailed diary that has become one of the key documents for understanding the inner workings of the Lincoln administration. In this new edition, William E. and Erica L. Gienapp have restored Welles’s original observations, gleaned from the manuscript diaries at the Library of Congress and freed from his many later revisions, so that the reader can experience what he wrote in the moment. With his vitriolic pen, Welles captures the bitter disputes over strategy and war aims, lacerates colleagues from Secretary of State William H. Seward to General-in-Chief Henry Halleck, and condemns the actions of the self-serving southern elite he sees as responsible for the war. He just as easily waxes eloquent about the Navy's wartime achievements, extols the virtues of Lincoln, and drops in a tidbit of Washington gossip. Carefully edited and extensively annotated, this edition contains a wealth of supplementary material. The appendixes include short biographies of the members of Lincoln’s cabinet, the retrospective Welles wrote after leaving office covering the period missing from the diary proper, and important letters regarding naval matters and international law. |
| diaries of the civil war: A Civil War Soldier's Diary Valentine Cartright Randolph, 2006 An articulate and vivid artist, Randolph describes action in key areas of the eastern theater-northern Virginia, Charleston, and Richmond and its surrounds. His record of the Peninsula Campaign, the siege of Charleston, and finally the Bermuda Hundred and Petersburg Campaigns offers a rare look at the role which common soldiers played in master strategies. A former theology student and an unusually thoughful man, Randolph questions the military predation of civilian property and condemns the racial prejudices of his fellow soldiers. In addition to the immediacy of the diary, readers will appreciate the informative commentary and annotations supplied by Civil War historian, Stephen R. Wise. |
| diaries of the civil war: The Civil War Diary of Wyman S. White Wyman Silas White, 1991 |
| diaries of the civil war: A Diary from Dixie Mary Boykin Chesnut, 1980 In her diary, Mary Boykin Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate general and aid to president Jefferson Davis, James Chestnut, Jr., presents an eyewitness account of the Civil War. |
| diaries of the civil war: Civil War Nurse Hannah Anderson Ropes, 1980 The chief nurse of the Union Hospital in Washington, D.C., describes life and stress in the hospital and comments on notable persons of power. Her heretofore unpublished diary and letters comprise a fresh, hightly significan document concerning the medical history of the Civil War and the contributions of women nurses in the Northern military hospitals. This book is edited, with Introduction and Commentary, by John R. Brumgardt. Published by The University of Tennessee. 150 pages |
| diaries of the civil war: Soldiering Rice C. Bull, 1988 Among the rank and file of largely uneducated Union Soldiers in the Civil War, Sergeant Rice C. Bull was an exception--a sensitive and perceptive man whose diary vividly describes the training, daily routine and combat that was the life of an infantryman. Among the memorable passages are those of the Battle of Chancellorsville and of marching with Sherman through a devastated Georgia to the sea. |
| diaries of the civil war: Civil War Medicine Shauna Devine, Guy R. Hasegawa, James M. Edmonson, Barbra Mann Wall, Margaret Humphreys, Randall M. Miller, 2019-05-01 “An incredible resource for anyone interested in the human experience of the Civil War―as recorded by a medical professional tasked with saving lives.”—David Price, Executive Director of the National Museum of Civil War Medicine In this never before published diary, twenty-nine-year-old surgeon James Fulton transports readers into the harsh and deadly conditions of the Civil War as he struggles to save the lives of the patients under his care. Fulton joined a Union army volunteer regiment in 1862, only a year into the Civil War, and immediately began chronicling his experiences in a pocket diary. Despite his capture by the Confederate Army at Gettysburg and the confiscation of his medical tools, Fulton was able to keep his diary with him at all times. He provides a detailed account of the next two years, including his experiences treating the wounded and diseased during some of the most critical campaigns of the war, and his relationships with soldiers, their commanders, civilians, other health-care workers, and the opposing Confederate army. The diary also includes his notes on recipes for medical ailments from sore throats to syphilis. In addition to Fulton’s diary, editor Robert D. Hicks and experts in Civil War medicine provide context and additional information on the practice and development of medicine during the Civil War, including the technology and methods available at the time; the organization of military medicine; doctor-patient interactions; and the role of women as caregivers and relief workers. Civil War Medicine: A Surgeon’s Diary provides a compelling new account of the lives of soldiers during the Civil War and a doctor’s experience of one of the worst health crises ever faced by the United States. |
| diaries of the civil war: A Southern Woman Elena Yates Eulo, 1993 Abandoned and ostracised during the Civil War, Elizabeth hides with her infant child in a Tennessee backwoods, where she is taken in hand by a woman who teaches the value of independence, and helps her forge a new life. |
| diaries of the civil war: I Am Perhaps Dying Dennis A. Rasbach, 2018-04-26 Invalid teenager Leroy Wiley Gresham left a seven-volume diary spanning the years of secession and the Civil War (1860-1865). He was just 12 when he began and he died at 17, just weeks after the war ended. His remarkable account, recently published as The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865, edited by Janet E. Croon (2018), spans the gamut of life events that were of interest to a precocious and well-educated Southern teenager—including military, political, religious, social, and literary matters of the day. This alone ranks it as an important contribution to our understanding of life and times in the Old South. But it is much more than that. Chronic disease and suffering stalk the young writer, who is never told he is dying until just before his death. Dr. Rasbach, a graduate of Johns Hopkins medical school and a practicing general surgeon with more than three decades of experience, was tasked with solving the mystery of LeRoy’s disease. Like a detective, Dr. Rasbach peels back the layers of mystery by carefully examining the medical-related entries. What were LeRoy’s symptoms? What medicines did doctors prescribe for him? What course did the disease take, month after month, year after year? The author ably explores these and other issues in I Am Perhaps Dying to conclude that the agent responsible for LeRoy’s suffering and demise turns out to be Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a tiny but lethal adversary of humanity since the beginning of recorded time. In the second half of the nineteenth century, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accounting for one-third of all deaths. Even today, a quarter of the world’s population is infected with TB, and the disease remains one of the top ten causes of death, claiming 1.7 million lives annually, mostly in poor and underdeveloped countries. While the young man was detailing the decline and fall of the Old South, he was also chronicling his own horrific demise from spinal TB. These five years of detailed entries make LeRoy’s diary an exceedingly rare (and perhaps unique) account from a nineteenth century TB patient. LeRoy’s diary offers an inside look at a fateful journey that robbed an energetic and likeable young man of his youth and life. I Am Perhaps Dying adds considerably to the medical literature by increasing our understanding of how tuberculosis attacked a young body over time, how it was treated in the middle nineteenth century, and the effectiveness of those treatments. |
| diaries of the civil war: A Changing Wind Wendy Hamand Venet, 2017-09-15 In 1845 Atlanta was the last stop at the end of a railroad line, the home of just twelve families and three general stores. By the 1860s, it was a thriving Confederate city, second only to Richmond in importance. A Changing Wind is the first history to explore what it meant to live in Atlanta during its rapid growth, its devastation in the Civil War, and its rise as a “New South” city during Reconstruction. A Changing Wind brings to life the stories of Atlanta’s diverse citizens. In a rich account of residents’ changing loyalties to the Union and the Confederacy, the book highlights the unequal economic and social impacts of the war, General Sherman’s siege, and the stunning rebirth of the city in postwar years. The final chapter focuses on Atlanta’s collective memory of the Civil War, showing how racial divisions have led to differing views on the war’s meaning and place in the city’s history. |
| diaries of the civil war: Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary, 1864 Lemuel Abijah Abbott, 2019-09-25 Reproduction of the original: Personal Recollections and Civil War Diary, 1864 by Lemuel Abijah Abbott |
| diaries of the civil war: Shadows on My Heart Lucy Rebecca Buck, 2012-02-01 When the Civil War began in 1861, Lucy Rebecca Buck was the eighteen-year-old daughter of a prosperous planter living on her family's plantation in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. On Christmas Day of that year Buck began the diary that she would keep for the duration of the war, during which time troops were quartered in her home and battles were literally waged in her front yard. The extraordinary chronicle mirrors the experience of many women torn between loyalty to the Confederate cause and dissatisfaction with the unrealistic ideology of white southern womanhood. In the environment of war, these women could not feign weakness, could not shrink from public gaze, and could not assume the presence of protection that was supposedly their right. This radical disjuncture, coming as it did during a period of extreme deprivation and loss, caused Buck and other so-called southern belles to question the very ideology with which they had been raised, often between the pages of private diaries. In powerful, unsentimental language, Buck's diary reveals her anger and ambivalence about the challenges thrust upon her after upheaval of her self, her family, and the world as she knew it. This document provides an extraordinary glimpse into the shadows on the heart of both Lucy Buck and the American South. |
| diaries of the civil war: Andersonville Diary, Escape, and List of the Dead John L. Ransom, 1883 |
| diaries of the civil war: I Acted from Principle William Marcellus McPheeters, 2000-07-01 At the start of the Civil War, Dr. William McPheeters was a distinguished physician in St. Louis, conducting unprecedented public-health research, forging new medical standards, and organizing the state's first professional associations. But Missouri was a volatile border state. Under martial law, Union authorities kept close watch on known Confederate sympathizers. McPheeters was followed, arrested, threatened, and finally, in 1862, given an ultimatum: sign an oath of allegiance to the Union or go to federal prison. McPheeters acted from principle instead, fleeing by night to Confederate territory. He served as a surgeon under Gen. Sterling Price and his Missouri forces west of the Mississippi River, treating soldiers' diseases, malnutrition, and terrible battle wounds. From almost the moment of his departure, the doctor kept a diary. It was a pocket-size notebook which he made by folding sheets of pale blue writing paper in half and in which he wrote in miniature with his steel pen. It is the first known daily account by a Confederate medical officer in the Trans-Mississippi Department. It also tells his wife's story, which included harassment by Federal military officials, imprisonment in St. Louis, and banishment from Missouri with the couple's two small children. The journal appears here in its complete and original form, exactly as the doctor first wrote it, with the addition of the editors' full annotation and vivid introductions to each section. |
| diaries of the civil war: Diary of the Civil War, 1860-1865 George Templeton Strong, 1962 |
| diaries of the civil war: William Howard Russell's Civil War William Howard Russell, 2008-09-01 Having won renown in the 1850s for his vivid warfront dispatches from the Crimea, William Howard Russell was the most celebrated foreign journalist in America during the first year of the Civil War. As a special correspondent for The Times of London, Russell was charged with explaining the American crisis to a British audience, but his reports also had great impact in America. They so alienated both sides, North and South, that Russell was forced to return to England prematurely in April 1862. My Diary North and South (1863), Russell's published account of his visit remains a classic of Civil War literature. It was not in fact a diary but a narrative reconstruction of the author's journeys and observations based on his private notebooks and published dispatches. Despite his severe criticisms of American society and conduct, Russell offered in that work generally sympathetic characterizations of the Northern and Southern leadership during the war. In this new volume, Martin Crawford brings together the journalist's original diary and a selection of his private correspondence to resurrect the fully uninhibited Russell and to provide, accordingly, a true documentary record of this important visitor's first impressions of America during the early months of its greatest crisis. Over the course of his visit, Russell traveled widely throughout the Union and the new Confederacy, meeting political and social leaders on both sides. Included here are spontaneous - and often unflattering - comments on such prominent figures as William H. Seward, Jefferson Davis, Mary Todd Lincoln, and George B. McClellan, as well as quick sketches of New York, Washington, New Orleans, and other cities. Alsorevealed for the first time are the anxiety and despair that Russell experienced during his visit - a state induced by his own self-doubt, by concern over the health and situation of his wife in England, and, finally, by the bitter criticism he received in America over his reports, especially his famous description of the Union retreat from Bull Run in July 1861. A sometimes vain and pompous figure, Russell also emerges here as an individual of exceptional tenacity - a man who abhorred slavery and remained convinced of the essential rectitude of the Northern cause even as he criticized Northern leaders, their lack of preparedness for war, and the apparent disunity of the Northern population. In calmer times, Crawford notes, Russell's independent qualities might have brought him admiration, but in the turbulent climate of Civil War America they succeeded only in arousing deep suspicion. |
| diaries of the civil war: Secret Yankees Thomas G. Dyer, 1999 Dyer captures the intricacies of multiple loyalties in the midst of seemingly unified secessionist sentiment. Skillfully written and carefully researched, this book is intended for both scholars and a general audience. Highly recommended. -- Library Journal |
| diaries of the civil war: Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic Julia A. Stern, 2010-01-15 A genteel southern intellectual, saloniste, and wife to a prominent colonel in Jefferson Davis’s inner circle, Mary Chesnut today is remembered best for her penetrating Civil War diary. Composed between 1861 and 1865 and revised thoroughly from the late 1870s until Chesnut’s death in 1886, the diary was published first in 1905, again in 1949, and later, to great acclaim, in 1981. This complicated literary history and the questions that attend it—which edition represents the real Chesnut? To what genre does this text belong?—may explain why the document largely has, until now, been overlooked in literary studies. Julia A. Stern’s critical analysis returns Chesnut to her rightful place among American writers. In Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Epic, Stern argues that the revised diary offers the most trenchant literary account of race and slavery until the work of Faulkner and that, along with his Yoknapatawpha novels, it constitutes one of the two great Civil War epics of the American canon. By restoring Chesnut’s 1880s revision to its complex, multidecade cultural context, Stern argues both for Chesnut’s reinsertion into the pantheon of nineteenth-century American letters and for her centrality to the literary history of women’s writing as it evolved from sentimental to tragic to realist forms. |
| diaries of the civil war: A Confederate Girl's Diary Sarah Morgan Dawson, 1913 Sarah Morgan Dawson lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at the outbreak of the American Civil War. In March 1862, she began to record her thoughts about the war in a diary-- thoughts about the loss of friends killed in battle and the occupation of her home by Federal troops. Her devotion to the South was unwavering and her emotions real and uncensored. A true classic. |
| diaries of the civil war: The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby (Hardcover) Marek Bennett, 2019-03-21 Marek Bennett's comics adaptation of this actual Civil War memoir brings to life the dry humor and grim conviction of teacher-turned-soldier Freeman Colby. Fiercely proud of his Granite State heritage, Freeman Colby bows to no one - not the rowdy students of his rural one-room schoolhouse, not the high-handed Union army officers in town, and certainly not those Rebel traitors causing all that trouble down South. But Colby needs work, and his ne'er-do-well little brother Newton needs looking after, so the boys enlist with a new regiment promising three years' pay and plenty of adventure in a growing war... |
| diaries of the civil war: The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams Nannie Haskins Williams, 2014-04-09 In 1863, while living in Clarksville, Tennessee, Martha Ann Haskins, known to friends and family as Nannie, began a diary. This document provides valuable insights into the conditions in occupied Middle Tennessee. A young, elite Confederate sympathizer, Nannie was on the cusp of adulthood with the expectation of becoming a mistress in a slaveholding society. The war ended this prospect, and her life was forever changed. Though this is the first time the diaries have been published in full, they are well known among Civil War scholars, and voice-overs from them were used in Ken Burns's PBS program The Civil War. Sixteen-year-old Nannie had to come to terms with Union occupation very early in the war. Amid school assignments, young friendship, social events, worries about her marital prospects, and tension with her mother, Nannie's entries also mixed information about battles, neighbors wounded in combat, U.S. Colored troops, and lawlessness in the surrounding countryside. Providing rare detail about daily life in an occupied city, Nannie's diary poignantly recounts how she and those around her continued to fight, long after the war was over, to maintain their lives in a war-torn community. Though numerous women's Civil War diaries exist, Nannie's is unique in that she also recounts her postwar life and the unexpected financial struggles she and her family experienced in the post-Reconstruction South. Nannie represents a generation of young women born into a society based on slavery but who faced mature adulthood in an entirely new world of decreasing farm values, increasing industrialization, and young women entering the workforce.--From publisher description. |
| diaries of the civil war: The Mexican War Diary and Correspondence of George B. McClellan Thomas W. Cutrer, 2009-11 George B. McClellan was a second lieutenant in the formation of combat engineers that accompanied Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott's army of invasion during the Mexican War (1846 -- 1848). His diary and correspondence written during this period records a rich record of the campaign and offers unique insights into the character of his fellow Engineers; the friction that arose between professional soldiers, officers and men of the volunteer regiments that made up Scott's command; and much about the character of the young Napoleon, reflecting the talent, the ambition, and the arrogance that characterized the engineer, businessman, soldier, and future politician. |
| diaries of the civil war: The Richmond Campaign of 1862 Gary W. Gallagher, 2000 Whiting's Confederate division in the battle of Gaines's Mill, the role of artillery in the battle of Malvern Hill, and the efforts of Radical Republicans in the North to use the Richmond campaign to rally support for emancipation.--BOOK JACKET. |
| diaries of the civil war: My Diary North and South Sir William Howard Russell, 1863 Discusses problems of America. |
| diaries of the civil war: The Civil War Diaries of Cassie Fennell Whitney Snow, 2020-11-20 Born near Guntersville, Alabama, Catherine (Cassie) Fennell was nineteen when the Civil War began. Starting with her time at a female academy in Washington, DC, the diaries continue through the war's end and discuss civilian experiences in Alabama and the Tennessee Valley. Fennell was fairly well off and highly educated, moving easily in very elite social circles. Most of her relatives were staunch Confederates, and the war took its toll, with multiple members of her family killed or captured. As she recounts the consequences of war-the downward spiral of the family fortune, the withering of hope at news from the battlefront, and the general uncertainty of civilian life in the South-Fennell's diaries constitute one of the few contemporaneous records of north Alabama, including the shelling and burning of Guntersville, which has been poorly documented in the historiography of the Civil War. Editor Whitney Snow's compilation adds to the now growing genre of women's Civil War diaries-- |
LANCELOT C. EWBANK CIVIL WAR DIARIES, 1860-1863
The collection consists of two diaries written by Lancelot Chapman Ewbank during the period 1860–1863, two copy photographs of Ewbank and his family, a transcription of the diaries, and photocopies of the original diaries. The first diary spans the period of October 1860–October 1861. Prior to the Civil War, Ewbank makes notations on his
MSS0048. Civil War collection finding aid
25 May 2021 · Abstract: This collection of American Civil War materials includes letters, diaries, official documents and other published items. Processed by: Ed Frank, 1989, 1991; Gerald Chaudron, 2015-2024. Access: Open to all researchers. Language: English . Preferred Citation: Civil War collection, Special Collections Department, University
The Turner Legacy - icct.nl
The Turner Diaries is part of a genre of racist dystopian propaganda dating back to the U.S. Civil War. This paper will document the books that directly and indirectly inspired Turner and examine the extensive violence that the novel has inspired. By comparing and contrasting The
Regimental and Unit Histories - Illinois Secretary of State
The following histories of Illinois Civil War regiments and units originate from the first eight volumes of the nine volume publication, Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois (1900-1902). (The ninth volume lists units of the Black Hawk, Mexican and Spanish-American Wars as well as the War of 1812.) The
A Guide to the Resources in the The Michigan Civil War
with the purpose to familiarize visitors of the MSU Archives with some of our Civil War resources. The body of this guide lists over 120 collections containing Civil War papers and records varying in size from a few pages to several boxes. These papers and records include correspondence, diaries and other documentation of Civil War experiences. The
Charles Hibbard Civil War Diaries - fulton.ohgenweb.org
Charles Hibbard Civil War Diaries Flags of the 67th Ohio Volunteers. On the left, a picture of the National Colors, currently part of the Ohio Historical Society's collection. The two pictures next to it are the Regimental Colors. The regimental colors are part of the Oregon-Jerusalem Historical Society Museum's Civil War artifacts collection.
Perry, Elias, Civil War Diary, 1864-1865, (C2470)
Diaries v. 1, 2 Diaries--Civil War v. 1, 2 Perry, Elias v. 1, 2 . Title: Perry, Elias, Civil War Diary, 1864-1865, (C2470) Author: jolleyl Subject: The papers contain the diary of Elias Perry of Dewitt, Missouri, a 2nd lieutenant in Sherman's army on the march to the sea. Diary covers the period 12 November 1864 to 24 March 1865.
Edmund Ruffin Diaries - Library of Congress
Edmund Ruffin Diaries A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Library of Congress Washington, D.C. ... Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns. Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. Virginia--Politics and government--1775-1865. Edmund Ruffin Diaries 2.
LESSON 10: Preserving the Horse Power of the Army
Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies Gettysburg College Director of the Civil War Institute and Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies Carmichael serves as co-chair of the Sesquicentennial Planning Committee on campus. His most recent book is The Last Generation: Young Virginians in Peace, War, and Reunion.
RECORDS OF ANTE-BELLUM SOUTHERN PLANTATIONS FROM …
diaries, private letters exchanged among family members and friends, and even an occasional letter written by a literate slave. They come mostly from the larger tobacco, cotton, sugar, and rice ... the Civil War, slavery, religion, politics, plantation agriculture, business, medicine, women’s history, and other matters. The earliest papers in ...
ASA E. SAMPLE CIVIL WAR DIARIES, 1862-1912 - Indiana …
This collection consists of the Civil War diaries of Asa E. Sample. They deal with his involvement as an enlisted man with the 54th Infanty Regiment, Company E. Volumes one through three are the original diaries kept by Sample between 9 December 1862 and 22 December 1863. There is also a photocopied embellished version of the diaries
Full title - University of Huddersfield Research Portal
contains selected collections including the Spanish Civil War, Blue Division and National Militias. Other collections added later included Field Hospitals, Ministry of the Army, General Captaincies and Franco’s Military House. 3 Translated as General Archive of the Spanish Civil War of Salamanca. This archive contains
George R. Crosby Civil War Diaries Project – 1863 This section ...
George R. Crosby Civil War Diaries Project – 1863 . This section transcribed October 29. th, 2005 – January 24. th, 2006 . Typed up February 1, 2006 – February 3, 2006. Patrick Gallagher . 4/11/1863 (page 38) “regt left Freedom Hill. went to Fairfax. our Co and M went back to Vienna. staid to Freedom Hill with Forbash, s[e]nt Nash to ...
THE CIVIL WAR DIARIES OF LEONARD C. FERGUSON
THE CIVIL WAR DIARIES OF LEONARD C. FERGUSON NOTES BY WILLIAM A. HUNTER Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission I A.CCOUNTS of Civil War Prison camps are not particularly Arare. Most of those in print were published as propaganda, however, to encourage enlistments during the war, to influence
Upson, Theodore F. With Sherman to the Sea: The Civil War …
With Sherman to the Sea: The Civil War Letters Diaries and Reminiscences of Theodore F. Upson. Edited by Oscar Osburn Winther. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1943. Election of 1860, Lincoln, 7 . John Brown's Body, 7-8 ... *War and morals, 104 . Chickamauga, dead, 107 . Atlanta camp, 108ff . Rifle pit, 110 . Sleeping picket, 112 ...
I Louisa B. Hart: An Orthodox Jewish Woman's Voice from the Civil War …
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Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War will be required ... - JSTOR
is the author of Deserter Country: Civil War Opposition in the Pennsylvania Appalachians (Fordham University Press, 2009). Emilie Davis’s Civil War: The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863–1865. Edited by Judith Giesberg. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014. Pp. 240. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $16.95.)
CIVIL WAR COLLECTIONS - University of Illinois Urbana …
CIVIL WAR COLLECTIONS FROM THE ILLINOIS HISTORY AND LINCOLN COLLECTIONS COMPILED JANUARY 2011 Since the surrender of the Confederate armies in 1865, interest in the Civil War has seldom abated. This certainly has been true in Illinois, the state that produced both Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.
What’s Cooking? Civil War Rations - National Museum of Civil War …
Civil War Rations SUBJECT TEACHER GRADE DATE American Studies Unit: Civil War Lesson: Civil War Rations TIME REQUIRED 45/60 Minutes NMCWM 04/08 Drafted: 4/21/2020 OVERVIEW Rations, the allotted food and supplies given during wartime and other crises, were important to the health and general wellbeing of the soldiers during the Civil War. ...
Herbert M. Schiller (Wake Forest University, Bowman Gray School …
Essential Civil War Curriculum | Herbert M. Schiller, The Siege and Reduction of Fort Pulaski | February 2015 ... A Captain’s War: The Letters and Diaries of William H.S. Burgwyn 1861-1865, and Confedeerate Torpedoes. He currently resides in Winston-Salem, NC. ESSENTIAL CIVIL WAR CURRICULUM . Title:
THE SISTERS OF CHARITY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA: CIVIL WAR …
after the war. Many historians agree the Civil War was pivotal in the evolution of American philanthropy. For the first time in American history, women helped establish and operate a national benevolent organization, the United States Sanitary Commission (USSC). Thousands of women volunteered for the USSC, the United States Christian
and the Provisional Russian Government of Admiral A.V. - Hoover …
government of the Russian Civil War, far surpasses other known diaries from the period not only in terms of chronological coverage and the frequency and detail of its entries but also in the variety of information it presents, the depth of the diarist's involvement, the scale of events covered, and the number of important figures encountered.
The Very Devil Was In the Elements: The American Civil War, …
The diaries, letters, and papers of Civil War soldiers supply an opportunity to view their level of natural awareness as well as their relationship with trees and wood products. Historians have scampered around the periphery of the relationship between the history of the Civil War
CIVIL WAR DIARY OF JOHN JAMES HANCOCK 127 Regiment, Illinoi
CIVIL WAR DIARY OF JOHN JAMES HANCOCK 127 Regiment, Illinoi . Introduction (by Leland E. Weyer - 1997): Robert L. Hancock had in his possession his Father's Diary which was passed down to Robert L. Hancock II. Grace Youel, Gladys, and Ray Roehr have done a wonderful
Francis M. Gordon Civil War Diaries (C3988) - State Historical …
The Civil War diaries consist of two volumes spanning from 1864 to 1867. The actual diary entries composed by Francis M. Gordon are for January 1 through October 23, 1864. Both volumes contain additional lists of accounts (cash and sale) and miscellaneous notes for 1864
A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CIVIL WAR LITERATURE
A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CIVIL WAR LITERATURE Th is book is the fi rst omnibus history of the literature of the American Civil War, the deadliest confl ict in U.S. history. A History ... Civil War Diaries 134 ane J E. Schultz 10 Civil War Memoir 151 arah S E. Gardner 11 Civil War Narrative History 165 TAustin Gaham r Part III Figur es ...
Allied Intervention and the Russian Civil War, 1917-1922 - JSTOR
Donald J. Raleigh, ed. A Russian Civil War Diary: Alexis Babine in Saratov, igiy-ig22. Durham, N.C. and London: Duke University Press, 1988. Pp. xxiv, 240. $29.95 (us)-The Allied intervention in the Russian civil war and indeed the civil war itself have been the subject of a massive body of literature dating back to the 1920s.
JOHN C. SWIFT CIVIL WAR DIARIES, 1861-1863
CIVIL WAR DIARIES, 1861-1863 Collection Information Historical Sketch Scope and Content Note Cataloging Information Processed by Charles Latham 11 January 1995 ... This collection contains four small diaries, kept by John C. Swift from 21 August 1861 till 1 May 1863. The entries are rather brief, "Laid in camp all day" being the most frequent. ...
Training of volunteer nurses during the Spanish Civil War (1936
6 Jan 2022 · RESEARCH ARTICLE Training of volunteer nurses during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939): A historical study Marı´a Lo´ pez1☯, Rube´ n Miro´ n-Gonza´ lez ID 2☯*, Marı´a-Jose´ Castro1‡, Jose´ -Marı´a Jime´ nez1‡ 1 Faculty of Nursing, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain, 2 Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Alcala´ , Alcala´ de …
CIVIL_WAR_COLLECTION_CONFEDERATE_AND_FEDERAL
The Civil War Collection contains original and photocopied materials relating to both Confederate and Federal. Included are autograph albums, casualty lists, cemetery records, clippings, diaries, letters, maps, memoirs, orders, photographs, medical and supply records, scrapbooks, sketches,
The Great Exaggeration Death and the Civil War - JSTOR
For Civil War–era Americans, however, there was a constant presence of infectious and endemic diseases that no longer trouble us sig- ... It is in diaries that regularly recorded signifi cant events, however, that the full import of suff ering best reveals itself.
War Diary 7 Cheshire Regiment 1939-42 - Stanwardine
WW2 War Diary of the 7th Battalion Cheshire Regiment – 1939 to 1943 September 1939 to June 1940 – Ref: WO 167/726, National Archives, Kew ... 1524 ‘A’ Coy reported occupied Civil Defence area at Congleton at embodiment strength. 3/9/1939 1115 11.15, Notification from London Broadcasting Station that a state of war existed with Germany ...
Russia’s Peasants in Revolution and Civil War
978-0-521-89689-4 - Russia’s Peasants in Revolution and Civil War: Citizenship, Identity, and the Creation of the Soviet State, 1914-1922 Aaron B. Retish Frontmatter More information. Acknowledgements It is my pleasure to acknowledge the institutions and people that helped
LONG NEGLECTED AREA of American Civil War history has A …
LONG NEGLECTED AREA of American Civil War history has A been the thousands of unpublished letters and diaries still found gathering dust in hundreds of attics across the nation. The recent Civil War centennial brought out some material of this type, and the general public has grown more aware of the advan-
RECORDS OF ANTE-BELLUM SOUTHERN PLANTATIONS
THE CIVIL WAR UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS OF AMERICA Series N Selections from the ... diaries, private letters exchanged among family members and friends, and even an occasional letter written by a literate slave. They come mostly from the larger tobacco, cotton, sugar, and rice
The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln’s Secretary of the …
The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles is one of the most useful books to come out of this commemoration. It is the third and should be the final edition of Gideon Welles’s diary to be published. Unlike the 1911 edition edited by Welles’s son …
A History of Camp Douglas' Illinois, Union Prison, 1861-1865
IVictor Hicken, Illinois in the Civil War, (Urbana, 1966), pp.1-2. In tribute to the six Illinois regiments that served in the War with Mexico, Illinois began its numbering system by designating the first regiment raised as the 7th Illinois. 2The Chicago Tribune, April 23, …
A Study of Morale in Civil War Soldiers - JSTOR
est to Civil War historians." Actually, no "miracle" is necessary to provide an abundance of relevant source ma-terial since diaries, letters, and memoirs of Civil War soldiers abound in almost every library. Much of this material has been used before. Bell I. Wiley, for example, relied on it almost exclusively when doing his studies of the ...
Kathryn R. Herring. How We Read the Soldier’s Words: Subjectivity …
There are few events in American history as controversial as the Civil War. A pivotal turning point in American history, the Civil War was as contentious then as it is now. During the Civil War, the controversy was evident in personal narratives. Journals and diaries indicate soldiers’, Union and Confederate, feelings concerning the war. These
U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center th Civil War Unit: 6 Maine ...
U.S. Army Heritage & Education Center th Civil War Unit: 6 Maine Infantry Regiment 950 Soldiers Drive Carlisle Barracks, PA 17013-5021 17 Oct 2012 1 6th Maine Infantry Regiment Ambler, Isaac W. ‘Truth is Stranger Than Fiction’: The Life of Sergeant.... Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1883. 319 p. U53.A65.
THE DIARY OF JACOB ENGELBRECHT: CHRONICLE OF LIFE IN …
1The diaries of Jacob Engelbrecht remained in the possession of his decendants in Frederick until recently when they were bequeathed to the Frederick County Historical Society. They were accessible to Dr. Dieter Cunz while preparing his book The Maryland Germans and Cunz quoted several passages pertaining to the Civil War.
THE CIVIL WAR DIARIES OF LEONARD C. FERGUSON
20 Jul 2017 · THE CIVIL WAR DIARIES OF LEONARD C. FERGUSON NOTES BY WILLIAM A. HUNTER Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission I A.CCOUNTS of Civil War Prison camps are not particularly Arare. Most of those in print were published as propaganda, however, to encourage enlistments during the war, to influence
The Diarist’s Identity: Mary Chesnut and her Civil War Diary
the war; when she died in 1886, a friend worked to have the work published. An abridged version was released in 1905, with more extensive editions released in 1949 and 1982. The 1982 edition, compiled by historian C. Vann Woodward, won the Pulitzer Prize in history. Handout A: Narrative The Diarist’s Identity: Mary Chesnut and her Civil War ...
Catholic Confederates: Faith and Duty in the Civil War South.
American Civil War (2019) incorporated the experiences of Catholic chap-lains into a broader study of religion in Civil War armies. The new schol-arship reveals that Catholicism, which by 1860 was the largest Christian . denomination in the United States, needs broader incorporation into the . general narratives of both southern religion and ...
THE CIVIL WAR DIARIES OF LEONARD C. FERGUSON - JSTOR
THE CIVIL WAR DIARIES OF LEONARD C. FERGUSON Notes by William A. Hunter Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission ACCOUNTS of Civil War Prison camps are not particularly rare. Most of those in print were published as propaganda, ... 3 Civil War Prisons, A Study in War Psychology, by William Best Hessel tine (Columbus, 1930). (Cited as ...
Diary as Literature - Vernon Press
Part I. Diaries of the American Civil War 1 Chapter 1 Using Personal Diaries as a Site for Reconstructing African American History 3 Corey D. Greathouse Austin Community College, Texas Chapter 2 Writing Their Lives During the Civil War: The Diaries of Irish-American Soldiers in the Union Army 15 Daniel P. Kotzin Medaille College, Buffalo, New York
English Civil War: Teachers' Resource Pack - University of Oxford
English Civil War: Teachers’ Resource Pack Contents: 1. Teachers’ introduction to the political background of the English Civil War to set the Oxford sources in a wider context. 2. Teachers’ notes on life in Civil War Oxford to help students examine …
George R. Crosby Civil War Diaries Project – 1863 This section ...
George R. Crosby Civil War Diaries Project – 1863 . This section transcribed October 29. th, 2005 – January 24. th, 2006 . Typed up February 1, 2006 – February 3, 2006. Patrick Gallagher . 4/11/1863 (page 38) “regt left Freedom Hill. went to Fairfax. our Co and M went back to Vienna. staid to Freedom Hill with Forbash, s[e]nt Nash to ...
