Manuscripts

Isaac Wilde diary

Image not available

Description: A small pocket diary, with entries running from Feb. 21 to Nov. 21, 1862; the bulk penned between Apr. 4 and the late May. The brief entries cover the advance to Manassas, Va. (Mar. 10-15), Howards Mill (Apr. 4), Warwick Road (Apr. 5), Siege of Yorktown (Apr. 5-May 4), Battle of Williamsburg (May 5), Expedition to James River (May 25-26), and the Battle of Fair Oaks (May 31-June 1). The entries for June 25 ? July 1 (Seven Days before Richmond) are blank except for a short entry on June 28. The rest of the occasional entries are mostly miscellaneous notes and accounts.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1862, February 21-November 21.
Call number: mssHM 68425
Creator: Wilde, Isaac E (active 1862)(Opens in new tab)

Civil War diaries of Harvey Henderson

Manuscripts

Six diaries that Harvey Henderson kept during his Civil War service covering the following periods: 1) 1861, Oct. 5 - 1862, Apr. 30; 2) 1862, May 1 - 1862, Dec. 31; 3) 1863, Jan. 1 - Nov. 30: 4) 1863, Dec. 1 - 1864, May 18; 5) 1864, May 19 - June 30; and 6) 1864, July 1 - 1865, Apr. 2.

mssHM 30481 (1-6)

Image not available

Moses Kingsbury diary

Manuscripts

A small pocket diary for 1864 with very brief entries, including rather laconic mentions of the demonstration on the Rapidan (February 6-7, 1864), battles of the Wilderness (May 6-7), Laurel Hill (May 8), Spottsylvania (May 8-12), Jericho Ford (May 25), Totopotomoy (May 28-31) and Cold Harbor (June 1-12). The diary fills about half of the Pocket Diary for 1864 (New York: Willy Wallach); the entries from June 19 on are blank.

mssHM 68428

Image not available

James C. Ridgway diary

Manuscripts

Pocket diary that Ridgeway kept in 1865 includes brief accounts of the battle at Hatcher's Run (Feb.5-7), Watkins's House (Mar. 25), the Appomattox Campaign (Mar. 28-April 9), the surrender of Lee and his army, and March to Washington, D.C. (May 2-12). The diary effectively ends on May 16; the rest of the manuscript consists of brief entries, mostly scattered accounts made in the 1868-1872.

mssHM 68424

Image not available

Isaac Mann letters

Manuscripts

Primarily letters that Isaac Mann wrote to his wife Susan Deaver Mann from Jan. 1 1862 to Aug. 7, 1864. The bulk of the letters were written during the march to Huttonsville, W.Va. (Feb. 1862), expedition ot Lost River, W. Va., (Apr. 1862), pursuit of Stonewall Jackson to Shenandoah Valley (June 1862), defenses of Washington, D.C. (September - December 1862), march to Fredericksburg, Va. (Dec. 10-15 1862), the "Mud March" (Jan. 20-24 1863), Gettysburg Campaign (June 11 - July 24 1863), and the operations against Fort Wagner, Morris Island and Charleston, S.C. The last three letters were written from army hospitals in Covington, Ky. and New Albany, Ind. The intensely personal and somewhat introvert letters are mostly devoted to Mann's love for his wife and family, longing for home, and religious reflections as well as trials and tribulations of camp life. Although he tended to avoid detailed descriptions of war operations and battle scenes, he did mention the "trying scenes" of the 2nd battle of Bull Run and the battle of Gettysburg. Also one letter written to John Deaver, 1862.

mssHM 21882-21909

Image not available

John Meyer diary

Manuscripts

John Meyer's diary for the year 1863 when the 28th Regiment was part of the Department of the Tennessee and, since July 1863, the Department of Gulf. Long, detailed daily entries cover the military campaigns and operations -- Gorman's expedition up the White River (Jan. 13-19); expedition from Helena, Ark. to Yazoo Pass (Feb. 13 - Apr. 5); operations against Fort Pemberton and Greenwood (Mar. 13 - Apr. 5); expedition to St. Francis River (Apr. 5-11); the battles of Port Gibson (May 1); Bayou Pierre (May 2-3); Fourteen-Mile Creek (May 12 -13); Champion Hill (May 17); Big Black River (May 17); siege of Vicksburg, Miss. (May 18 - July 4); the siege of Jackson (Miss)' duty at Carrollton and Brashear City, La. (Aug. 2 - Oct. 3); Western Louisiana Campaign (Oct. 3 - Nov. 3), and duty at New Iberia and New Orleans, La. The diary also discusses the soldiers' health; war and political news; encounters with Union loyalists and African Americans, etc.

mssHM 76194

Image not available

William A. Steel letterbooks

Manuscripts

Seven letterpress books of Steel's business and private outgoing business and personal correspondence: 1) 1862, Aug. 28 -- 1864, Feb. 29 (HM 76186); 2) 1864, Feb. 29 -- 1864, Dec. 21 (HM 76187); 3) 1864, Dec. 21 -- 1865, Dec. 18 (HM 76188); 4) 1865, Oct. 13 - 1867, June 15 (HM 76189); 5) 1867, June 15 -- 1869, Apr. 7 (HM 76190); 1870, Nov. 12 -- 1873, Jan. 14 (HM 76191); 7) 1875, Jan. 1 -- 1877, Oct. 22 (HM 76192).

mssHM 76186-76192

Isaac Wilde diary

Opening Hours

Admission Info and Tickets

You might also be interested in

Civil War diaries of Harvey Henderson

Moses Kingsbury diary

James C. Ridgway diary

Isaac Mann letters

John Meyer diary

William A. Steel letterbooks