Dakota State University
Madison, SD, USA
The American Civil War

Diaries, Letters, and Memoirs

• Letters from the Civil War, War Letters
• Letters: American Civil War Collections, Electronic Text Center, U of Virginia
• Letters: About the War, assorted
• Letters: Family War Stories, assorted letters, Bo Lind
• Memoir: John G. B. Adams, Capt., 19th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
• Memoir: Archibald Atkinston, Jr, Surgeon, CSA, 31st Virgina Infantry and 10th Virginia Cavalry, 1861-65
• Letter: Sullivan Ballou, July 14, 1861
• Letter: Sullivan Ballou, July 14, 1861 (A more complete version accompanied by photos of Sullivan's gravestone.)
• Memoir: Lorenzo D. Barnhart, private, Co. B, 110th Ohio
• Letters: George Rust Bedinger, 33rd Virginia Vol. Inf., Capt., Co. E, January 10, 1861 to May 14, 1863, letters to and from him
• Letters: Wesley Walk Bradly, Randolph's Battalion, 5th Texas Partisan Rangers, 1862-65
• Letters: Richard W. Burt, 76th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
• Memoir: Robert C. Carden, Co. B, 16th Tennessee Infantry
• Diary: Lawson "Lott" Hannibal Carley, 2nd Lt, Co. E, 5th Iowa Cavalry
• Letters: Christie Family, 1st and 2nd MN Light Artillery
• Letter: Benjamin Franklin Coffman, Cpl, Co. H, 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry, July 12, 1863, to his wife telling about the Battle of Gettysburg
• Letter: Benjamin Franklin Coffman, Cpl, Co. H, 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Sept. 18, 1864, to his wife from Fort Delaware POW camp
• Diary: Rachel Cormany, Chambersburg, June 14 - July 6, 1863
• Diary: Samuel Cormany, June 30 - July 6, 1863
• Letters: Montgomery Dent Corse, Brig. Gen, CSA, written as a POW
• Letter: Col. Arthur Cummings, 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry
• Letters: Sgt. Ferdinand Dunlap, 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry
• Letters: Battle of Franklin, Save the Franklin Battlefield, Inc.
• Letters: Abram Fulkerson, Col. 63rd TN, CSA
• Questionnaire: Peter Graham Fulkerson, TN Civil War Veterans 
• Letters: Samuel V. Fulkerson, 37th VA, CSA
• Memoir: Thomas Graham Fulkerson, CSA
• Letter: Jacob Golladay, Jr., 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Capt., Co. H, May 8, 1863
• Diary: Eugene Goodwin, 99th New York Infantry
• Memoir: Ulysses S. Grant
• Diary: James E. Hall, 31st Virginia Infantry, Co. H
• Diary: Alexander Hart, Major, 5th Louisiana Infantry, July 6, 1864 - May 17, 1865
• Diary: William Heyser, Sept. 29, 1862 to July 10, 1863
• Memoir: Michael Hileman, 1820-1915, includes Civil War years as Sgt in 96th Illinois
• Memoir: Harvey S. Hogue, Co. G, 115th Ohio, 1862-65
• Memoir: James K. Hosmer, Cpl, 52nd Massachusetts, 1862-63
• Memoir: Harmon Root Hubbard, Capt., 1st and 2nd IL Cavalry, 119th IL Infantry
• Memoir: Simon Hubler, 1st Sgt., 143rd PA Vol. Inf., Co. I. 
• Diary: Frederick James, U.S. Navy, of his Andersonville experience
• Letters: Edmond Hardy Jones, Pvt. 64th Georgia
• Letters: "My Dear Josie", April 11 & 12, 1862, relating Battle of Shiloh
• Diary: Chauncey Pond Joslin, 64th New York, Co. A
• Diary: Bingham Findley Junkin, Pvt., 100th Pennsylvania Infantry
• Letters: Daniel Francis Kemp, Landsman, U.S. Navy, served on gunboats on the Mississippi River, 1862-63
• Diary: Henry Carl Ketzle, Co. A, 37th Illinois Volunteer Infantry
• Letters: Edwin I. Kursheedt, Washington Artillery, CSA
• Diary and letters: Abiel Teple LaForge, Co. C, 85th New York Volunteer Infantry
• Letter: Thomas Langford, Pvt., 17th Georgia Volunteer Infantry, June 17, 1864; with photo
• Letters: Forrest Little, Pvt., 5th Vermont Volunteer Infantry, Sept. '61 to July '62.
• Journal: James B. Lockney, Pvt, Co. G, 28th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry
• Letters: Dr. Albion Martin, 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry
• Letters: Newspapers of Massachusetts, Tom Hayes
• Diary: Clay McCauley, 2nd Lt, 126th Pennsylvania Infantry
• Letters: Archibald McKee, 15th Iowa Volunteer Infantry
• Diary: G.D. Molineaux, May 1, 1865 to March 2, 1866
• Memoir, Diary: Jefferson Moses, Co. G, 93rd Illinois
• Memoir: Thomas Newton, Pvt., Co. I, 6th Wisconsin, relating his experiences at Andersonville
• Letters: Battle of Olustee, Confederate and Union Participants
• Diary: James Laughlin Orr, Captain, QM Corps, 2nd Div., XIV Corps, Nov. 12 - Dec. 16, 1864
• Letters: 126th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
• Letters: William Moore Parkinson, Co. C, 11th Illinois, later Capt, 8th Louisiana (colored)
• Memoir: Phoebe Yates Pember, first 8 chapters of A Southern Woman's Story; Pember was a nurse at the Confederate Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond
• Diaries: Timothy J. Regan, Corp., 9th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry
• Papers: Tilton C. Reynolds, 105th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
• Memoir: Milton Asbury Ryan, Pvt., Co. B, 14th Mississippi Volunteer Infantry
• Memoir: Bradford Riply Alden Scott, boy living in Fredericksburg, VA
• Letters: Newton Scott, 36th Iowa Volunteer Infantry
• Diary: Eleanor Cohen Seixas, Columbia, SC, Feb 28, 1865 - Sept. 10, 1865
• Letters: Selected Civil War Letters, Southern Historical Collection
• Letters: George Granville Sharp, 153rd Indiana Infantry
• Letters: 16th South Carolina Volunteer Infantry
• Diary: Capt. Michael Shuler, 33rd Virginia Volunteer Infantry
• Letter: Jesse B. Sims, Pvt., Co. D, 21st Mississippi Volunteer Infantry, Oct. 27, 1864
• Diary: George Sinsel, 8th NY Heavy Artillery, Co. D, April 1864-
• Letters: Alexander, Joseph, and Ezra Slagg, 23rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, with extensive narration by editor
• Letters: Jake and Nancy Steubing, Company B, 26th Cavalry Regiment (Debray's Regiment), C.S.A.
• Letters: John Kennedy Street, 9th Texas Infantry, Co. A
• Diary: Henry W. Tisdale, Sgt., 35th Massachusetts, Co. I
• Letters: Felix Voltz, 187th New York Volunteer Infantry
• Letters: Galutia H. York, 114th New York Volunteer Infantry
• Memoir: W. H. Younce, 58th North Carolina Infantry
• Diary: Joseph Waddell
• Diary: David Warman, contract surgeon, Fortress Monroe, April 4-Sept. 20, 1864 (updated)
• Letter: Delano Warren, Pvt., 183rd NY Vol. Inf., Feb. 5, 1865
• Diary: John Weathered, 9th Tennessee Cavalry
• Letter: Powhatan Bolling Whittle, officer, 38th Virginia Volunteer Infantry, June 22, 1861
• Diary: Alice Williamson, 16 years old, Gallatin, TN, Feb 19 - Sept 27, 1864
• Diaries, Letters: 5th and 33rd Iowa Volunteer Infantry
• Letters: 26th Wisconsin, particularly those of Maj. Frederick C. Winkler; he wrote a lot of letters

December 1, 2009