Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Craver, Charles F. Pocket diary. 1861, Dec. 21 -- 1862, Dec. 23
1 of 127
Manuscripts
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Pocket diary in pencil and pen. Covers a wide range of dates, and includes address, muster lists, as well as diary entries for the Months of August, September and October, 1863. There is a drawing of a dove on the inside back cover.
mssHM 76851
Manuscripts
Pocket diary in pencil and pen. Diary is of Thomas Craver at home in Iowa while his brother, Henry, and cousin, Charles, were in the Union Army. Records weather and daily occurrences, including trips to Montezuma and Grinell Iowa.
mssHM 76854
Manuscripts
Pocket diary in pencil and pen. Describes the brief period of four months while Thomas was in the 4th Iowa Cavalry Regiment, Company E, prior to his falling ill and dying in May of 1864. Includes his comments on falling sick and fighting the "flux."
mssHM 76855
Image not available
Manuscripts
Pocket diary that Lewis kept from Jan. 1 through Mar. 2, 1862, when the regiment was occupying Loudoun Heights (Va.) On Mar. 2 he went home on furlough, at which point the diary ends. Very short entries hastily scribbled in pencil, recording marching orders received, a skirmish near Staunton, news of officers and soldiers died of wounds and taken prisoner, etc. The diary fills 20 pages of the Pocket Diary for 1862, Containing an Almanac for New York, St. Louis, and San Francisco... (Cambridgeport, Mass.: Published annually by Denton & Wood, 1862).
mssHM 68420
