Chisholm, Daniel

THE CIVIL WAR NOTEBOOK OF DANIEL CHISHOLM: A Chronicle of Daily Life in the Union Army 1864-1865.

Edited by W. Springer Menge and J. August Shimrak. Pp. xxii+202, headpiece decorations, appendix, index; med. 8vo; qr. beige cloth, spine lettered in black, blue papered boards; price-clipped dust wrapper; Orion Books, New York, 1989. First edition. *Daniel Chisholm joined the Union Army in 1864, aged nineteen, and fought in the final campaigns of the Civil War. After the war, he collected the letters he had written home and transcribed them into a notebook. He also borrowed the diary of a fellow soldier, Samuel Clear, and transcribed that into his notebook. Item #174757

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