War diaries
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 55 Collections and/or Records:
Walter E. Thrall collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2356
Scope and Contents
This collection consists entirely of photocopies. There are the journals of Walter E. Thrall, Captain of Company E of the 60th Indiana Volunteers. The journals range from April 1862 to December 1865. There is also information about the supplies and actions of the 60th, forms and other papers created in Southern Louisiana at the end of the war when Company E occupied Lafourche and Terrebone Parishes, and newsclippings.
Dates:
1863-1903
Whitsel Lewis diary
Collection — Folder S0834
Identifier: S0834
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a photocopy of the diary of Whitsel Lewis in Georgia ranging from July to September, 1864 regarding his military service with the 87th Indiana Regiment during the U.S. Civil War.
Dates:
1864
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Whitsel Lewis diary
William H. Records papers
Collection
Identifier: L131
Scope and Contents
This collection includes diaries from William H. Records in Rising Sun, Indiana and the United States ranging from 1862 to 1865 and 1904 regarding his military service with the 72nd Indiana Regiment during the U.S. Civil War and life as a farmer in Rising Sun. There are also photocopies of the more fragile diaries, as well as miscellaneous papers (1855-1864) and a manuscript by Records based on his Civil War diaries.
Dates:
1862-1865, 1904
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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William H. Records papers
William Tasker diary
Collection — Folder S1283
Identifier: S1283
Scope and Contents
This is a xerox copy of the small diary handwritten by William Tasker in 1865, during and after his service in the Civil War. Although someone has numbered the photocopies, they do not go in order of the dates, because page 21 has an entry for November 23, 1864, whereas page 3 has the date January 26, 1865. The page 3 entry states: "Started from Charleston and got to Chatanooga." He does not mention when he heard the war ended in April entries. Most of the entries are about drill, marching,...
Dates:
1865
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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William Tasker diary
Willis B. Keith diary
Collection — Folder S2542
Identifier: S2542
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a bound volume containing photocopies of a typed transcript of daily diary entries that Willis B. Keith kept from January 1, 1865 to October 25, 1965 while serving with Company B, 35th Indiana Regiment during the Civil War. Bound with the diary are photocopies of a typewritten transcription of a letter written by Keith on March 6, 1865 and sent from Huntsville, Alabama to his Uncle Willard Keith, typewritten histories regarding the 35th Indiana Regiment and Morgan's...
Dates:
1865, 1964-1965
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Willis B. Keith diary
