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      • Their narratives provide details about the conditions and emotions that defined life during the Civil War. Men and women from both the North and South, often kept journals or diaries of their experiences on the battlefield, in prison camps, in military hospitals, and on the home front.
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  3. May 23, 2024 · Several Civil War-era diaries are wonderfully preserved (with transcriptions, too), and, as true diaries do, they drag you through the minutiae and mundanity of every day until suddenly they thrust the power of the world around them into perspective.

  4. Jul 27, 2023 · Civil War collection includes three diaries by Cooke which describe movements and daily activities of regiments, particularly in Harper's Ferry area, and include Cooke's impressions of Generals Grant and Sheridan, army life, and the South.

    • Kate Collins
    • 2011
  5. Jun 18, 2024 · Diaries & Letters. 20,000 documents pertaining to the general correspondence of Abraham Lincoln. A research guide accessible from the homepage details the letters, papers, newspapers, and records available in this collection. Diaries, newspapers, and other Civil War content. Items organized into categories and by year.

    • Andy Cougill
    • 2019
  6. Jan 19, 2024 · What They Wrote, What They Saved: The Personal Civil War This exhibition features diaries, letters, and firsthand accounts from four years of Civil War that offer intimate glimpses into the lives of men and women affected by the strife.

    • Jennifer Fauxsmith
    • 2014
  7. Civil War Diaries and Personal Narratives is a selective compilation of diaries, letters, memoirs, and personal narratives of the common soldier—many times witnessing the conflict on a grand scale—published as books between 1960 and 1994 and held in the general collections of the Library of Congress. Accounts published before 1960, but reissued

  8. These collections consists of diaries and collections of letters from the Civil War era found in Special Collections and Archives. The diaries offer a unique look into the lives of common soldiers, spies and even a bodyguard of Abraham Lincoln.

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