Civil war diary and related papers. 1861-1862.

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Civil war diary and related papers. 1861-1862.

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A diary kept in 1861 by a young Minneapolis newspaperman while serving in Maryland and Virginia with Company D of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. The collection also includes a letter written in 1862 by Orison N. Washburn, a member of Company C of the Fourth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment, while stopped at St. Louis, Missouri en route to points further south.

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