Civil War correspondence, diaries, and journals at the Massachusetts Historical Society
Publisher: Massachusetts Historical Society; U.M.I., distributor]
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Boston, Mass; [Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 29
Subjects: Sources; Personal narratives; Regimental histories; History
Other titles: Civil War papers
Description: Reproduces the war experiences of 29 men who served with Massachusetts military units during the Civil War. The collection contains more than 30,000 pages of correspondence, diaries, and journals written by young men as they served in the conflict and gives insight into a variety of individual experiences, such as, descriptions of dreary field service, life in military hospitals, the Navy, the United States Christian Commission, and a provost marshall's office.
Notes: Open to research.