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• Aquilla Standifird's Civil War Diary

  Company D, 23rd Iowa.

• Augustana College - Thomas Tredway Library - Special Collections

  Rock Island, Illinois.

  • Civil War Diaries

• Christopher Vail's Journal (1775-1782)

  An account of Christopher Vail's experience during the American Revolution.

• Civil War Diaries of Wentworth DOW # (1829-1904), Pvt, Co E 16th Regt Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers (Adams County Rifles)

  Reproduced original diary pages and transcription with extensive supplemental information about the people, places and events described, military records and genealogical connections of people mentioned.

• Civil War Diaries: Location of Women's Diaries

• Civil War Diary of Bingham Findley JUNKIN, 100th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (Roundheads)

• Civil War Diary of Elias D. MOORE 114th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Co. A

• Civil War Diary of Sergeant Henry W. Tisdale, 35TH Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer s 1862-1865

  This site contains my great-grandfather, Sergeant Henry W. Tisdale's Civil War Diary, Company I,35TH Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers,1862-1865 which can be read at the site.

• Civil War Diary: 13th Reg NH Vol Infantry

  1864 Civil War Diary of Farrin CROSS.

• Civil War Journal of Herbert E. COTES of New Woodstock, Madison County, NY

  Apr 19, 1862

• Civil War Journal of James B. LOCKNEY, Wisconsin 28th Regmt., Co. G

• Civil War Letter Collection of First Lieutenant Rufus Ricksecker, 126th OVI, Part I

  A collection of 30 letters written between October 12, 1862 and September 18, 1864. Rufus Ricksecker was killed on September 19, 1864 at the Battle of Opequan (Third Winchester).

• Civil War letters of the Blountsville Boys, Henry, County, Indiana

  Many were written by Allen Wesley Galyean.

• Civil War: Iowa Volunteers

  Including excerpts from a Civil War diary and letters.

• Diary of Mexican-American War: Elias F. HINEY

  Elias Hiney served in Company B, First Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteers from December 15, 1846 through July 27, 1848 and kept a diary through his entire term of service.

• Evacuation- The Diary of One Man's Experience

  The diary of Edwin Richard George QUITTENTON in Northern France during 1940.

• Illinois Greyhounds

  Diary of Henry KETZLE of Company A in the 37th Illinois Infantry from July 1861 through May 1866.

• In His Own Words: Isaac Newton Carr 1836-1923

  Isaac Newton Carr was a Civil War union soldier, farmer and stockman in Washington County, Iowa, USA. He began journaling while a union soldier in 1861. He continued journaling right up to his death in 1923. Selected journal entries are posted on a daily basis. Isaac names family members, neighbors, friends and people he met during his life. Surnames include, but are not limited to: BRADFORD, CARR, CARRIS, DORRANCE, HICKS, LEIGHTON, SANDERS, SQUIRE(S), & TAYLOR.

• Letter from Sergeant Joseph Fisher, Company A, 126th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

  This letter was written on November 3, 1862 from Camp McCook, Cumberland, Maryland. It describes the wonder a rural Ohio farmboy feels on his first trip into the mountains with his Regiment. Joseph Fisher was eventually lost at the Wilderness, May 6, 1864.

• Letters from an Iowa Soldier in the Civil War

  Part of a collection written by Newton Robert SCOTT, Private, Company A, of the 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunteers to Hannah CONE, his friend and later his wife.