Journal, 1862-1865.

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Journal, 1862-1865.

Typed copy of the journal of Samuel Hoey Walkup describing the formation of the 48th North Carolina Regiment and election of field officers; the Peninsular Campaign; the battles of second Manassas (Bull Run), Antietam, and Fredericksburg; the siege of Petersburg; various Confederate and Union generals and units; camp life; food; pay; sickness; care of the wounded, physicians, and hospitals; Confederate bonds; commodity prices; chaplains; refugees; fraternization with the enemy; desertion; courts-martial; his arrest and release; Ulysses S. Grant; and Zebulon Baird Vance. The original manuscript is in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.

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