Inventory of the John W. Anderson Diary 1861-1866 (bulk: 1867)

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Inventory of the John W. Anderson Diary 1861-1866 (bulk: 1867)

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John W. Anderson was born 1 April 1834, one of the eight children born to F. D. Anderson and Mary Silver Anderson of Hanford County, Md. John W. Anderson received his M.D. from the University of Maryland, and soon after accepted the offer of help to establish a medical practice from his uncle Joseph Silver, arriving in Mt. Pleasant, Ala. Sept. 1854. After a break with his benefactor in 1856, Anderson relocated to Sparta, Ala., establishing a successful medical practice, soon afterwards marrying Rosalie Josephine Witter. By the time of the diary four children had been born to the marriage, with only two surviving infancy, Francis Eugene Anderson (Frank) and Gertrude Corinne Anderson (Gertie). Rosalie's brother, Robert W. Witter, Jr. founded a small weekly newspaper in Sparta, Ala., called Anderson accepted the offer of a partnership in the paper, eventually completely abandoning his increasingly neglected medical practice in 1857. At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Anderson impulsively enlisted in a company of infantry mustered in Sparta, Ala., to answer the call to defend Fort Pickens, Fla. After the company was sent back home without seeing action, Anderson travelled to Montgomery, Ala. in Feb. 1861, and obtained an office with the newly established (4 Feb. 1861) Confederate States of America Provisional Government as Corresponding Clerk in the office of C. G. Memminger, Secretary of the Treasury for the Confederacy. Anderson was later appointed (16 Aug. 1862) Recording Clerk of the Senate of the Confederate States of America. With Anderson's help, his brother-in-law, Robert B. Witter, had also obtained a position (Jan. 1862) with the Confederate government in the First Auditor's Office. Both Anderson and Witter also held the military rank of private in Company F of the Virginia 3rd Regiment, a sort of Home Guard, and lived with their families in Richmond, Va. fairly continuously during the rest of the war, after the Confederate Capital was transferred to that city in June 1861. Periodic trips to Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, and Maryland, often to escape Richmond, and occasionally to visit either the Anderson family in Baltimore, or the Witter family in Pensacola, enrich the diary with descriptions of railroad and boat travel, hotel living, sightseeing and the ever-present wide-flung battlefield that the war had made of the South. After the war was over, economic conditions were even worse for the Anderson family, and, among other occupations, to make ends meet, Anderson eventually returned to newspaper work accepting a position in Nov. 1865 as a typesetter with the . The John W. Anderson Diary 1861-1866 (bulk: 1867) consists of: the original diary for the years 1861-1866, handwriten by John W. Anderson in 1867 as a fair copy presentation gift to his sister Minnie Anderson, in a notebook made by A. Drury, measuring approximately 24 x 19 cm. The notebook is bound in cardboard, covered in paper, with quarter leather corners and backstrap, and housed in the repository under Restricted access in a phase box; a complete photographic copy (with negatives) of the diary pages made in 1988, housed in polpropylene sleeves in three three-ring clamshell album boxes; and a photocopy of the photographs of the diary made on archival quality paper. The Spartan. Richmond Examiner

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