Box 1
Contains 4 Results:
Diary of John Handly, Company A, 8th Maine Volunteers, 1865 with transcription, and John Handly's pocket-size bible. (Tintype of Handly located with photographs)
Miscellaneous Civil War material from various sources, including correspondence, diaries, photographs and printed material. For additional Civil War holdings see the departmental guide: Civil War Resources.
Diary owned by a succession of soldiers, 1863: S.W Croft, Excelsior Brigade USV; A.M Riddle, Louisiana Guard Artillery; C.H. Small, 5th Maine Volunteers and "picked up on the battlefield at raperhanock [sic] Station Nov. 7th 1864 by Sewall C. Smith Co D 5th Maine Vols." Laid into the diary is a pledge of loyalty to the C.S.A. signed by Riddle and a C.S.A. military pass
Miscellaneous Civil War material from various sources, including correspondence, diaries, photographs and printed material. For additional Civil War holdings see the departmental guide: Civil War Resources.
Diaries: Washington, D.C. 1861 and 1864, civilian owner unknown. Brief entries, some on events in the city; 1862, Frederick A. Chick, 11th Reg. Maine Infantry Vols.
Miscellaneous Civil War material from various sources, including correspondence, diaries, photographs and printed material. For additional Civil War holdings see the departmental guide: Civil War Resources.
Journal of Horatio Fox Smith, July 4, 1863-November 11, 1863. (Smith correspondence from 1864 located in Correspondence series, M131.1).
12 items, including an 1863 journal documenting a summer journey to Providence, R.I., to help recruit college students for a "college regiment" of artillery; and letters home during his 1864 service in the 31st Maine Infantry Regiment, in which he recounts camp life and describes military engagements in Virginia, including the Wilderness Campaign.
