Diary of Ambrose S. Nichols, a Union soldier in the American Civil War.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nichols, Ambrose S., active 1863, author.

Contributor:

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, owner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soldiers--Diaries.

Genre:

Diaries

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Production:

[Place of production not identified] : [producer not identified], 1863.

Summary:

A war-weary soldier's diary provides contemporary eyewitness accounts of the entire Gettysburg Campaign, including the march from Maryland up into Pennsylvania, the battles at Brandy Station and Gettysburg, and the later push in pursuit of the Confederates. Nichols served in the 10th New York Cavalry. His entries are dated January 1-6 and April 12 - November 27, 1863, describing cavalry battles and engagements, the execution of deserters, and the horrors of battlefields during that critical war year. From Saturday, July 4, at Gettysburg: "They kept up the fite last nite till 10 o'clock and thair is som firing hear this morning but not a grate deal for I think that the Rebs had enough of it yesterday for thair loss must bee vary hevy for we mode them down like grass." Approx. 400 pp.

Notes:

Collection Reference: GLC09272

From folder: Unassociated Civil War Documents 1863

Sub-collection: Papers and Images of the American Civil War

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