United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

Scope and Contents This collection has two folders. Folder one contains a xerox copy of Henry B. Sparks' diary, which he kept from January 1 through November 26, 1864. Folder two has the twenty-page typed copy of the same diary. On January 1, he wrote: This is the beginning of this little memoranda. Oh, may its pure and unsullied pages as now never be stained with a record of evil deeds, but a memoir of brave deeds and actions that I may look over in after times, and try to make my life better every day."...