Samuel Marshall Diary

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  • Samuel Marshall Diary Book Detail

  • Author : Samuel Marshall
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  • Genre : Bermuda Hundred Region (Va.)
  • Pages : 143
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  • File Size : 93,93 MB
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Book Description: Diary that Samuel Marshall kept from January 1 to August 9 when he decided to "to close this book and forward it on by mail." The detailed entries contain descriptions of battles and other military operations in South Carolina and Virginia, accounts of camp life, the "boys," living conditions, encounters with local famers and freedmen, etc. Included are accounts of the executions of two deserters from the 6th Connecticut Regiment, three soldiers who died trying to pull a plug from an unexploded Confederate shell "to make finger rings," and an incident when of the regiment's officers was detained by local freedmen who had mistaken him for a Confederate spy. The last portion of the diary contains an essay entitled "The Private Soldier;" an account of the operations in Virginia in May of 1864, including the Battle of Drewry's Bluff (May 14-16) and the operations on Bermuda Hundred Line (May 17-30), with lists of casualties and notes on two privates of Co. E who "shamefully left their Co. in the face of the enemy;" some clothing and supplies requitions and other company records. Also included is a detailed list of battles and campaigns in which the regiment fought from the beginning of the war to 1864.

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Diary that Samuel Marshall kept from January 1 to August 9 when he decided to "to close this book and forward it on by mail." The detailed entries contain descr

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Handwritten copy of an original diary (referred to as a journal by the writer) with a short letter to parents and friends as a preface. The diary covers the voy