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    Diary kept while serving in Company E, 22nd Regiment New York Volunteers in Virginia.

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    Monument honoring the 2nd Rhode Island Infantry, 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 6th Corps

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    Elias Cade's three diaries detail his time serving with the Army of the Potomac, the Army of the Tennessee, and the Military Division of the Mississippi, and his experiences in the battles of Antietam and Gettysburg, the siege of Atlanta, Sherman's March, and the Campaign of the Carolinas. The diaries cover Cade's entire war experience from enlistment to mustering out. There are also some notes by descendants of the Cade family.

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