John Kingsley Wood diary, 1855-1865.

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John Kingsley Wood diary, 1855-1865.

A diary kept by Wood as a member of Company F of the Sixth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry on Henry H. Sibley's punitive expeditions following the 1862 Dakota Conflict, in Minnesota frontier forts, and at the Sioux encampment near Fort Snelling until June 1864, and thereafter in the South during the remainder of the Civil War. The volume also includes Wood's accounts and memoranda as a farmer near Red Wing (Minn.), giving planting dates and labor costs, 1855-1862.

1 v., and 83 loose pages in package.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6783428

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Wood, John Kingsley.

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United States. Army. Minnesota Infantry Regiment, 6th (1862-1865). Company F

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See: Minnesota in the Civil and Indian Wars, vol. 1, pp. 300, 338. From the description of Company F records, 1855-1887. (Minnesota Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 313842834 ...