Diary, 1862-1865.

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Diary, 1862-1865.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20504491

Whitney's Civil War diary concerns camp life; religion in the army; the participation of the 110th Regiment in the siege of Port Hudson, La., in 1863; and Whitney's service as a guard at Fort Jefferson, a prison for Confederates in the Dry Tortugas, Fla., 1864, including a description of the arrival of four civilian prisoners convicted of conspiring to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln: Samuel Arnold, Dr. Samuel Mudd, Michael O'Laughlin, and Edward Spangler.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6999072

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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O'Laughlin, Michael, -1867

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Arnold, Samuel, 1834-1906

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Spangler, Edward W. (Edward Webster), 1846-1907

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Whitney, Henry, 1844-

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Union soldier in the 110th New York Infantry Regiment; from Pulaski (Oswego Co.), N.Y. From the description of Diary, 1862-1865. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 154271033 From the description of Diary, 1862-1865. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20504491 ...

Mudd, Samuel Alexander, 1833-1883

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Physician who lived with his wife and children on a farm near Bryantown, Maryland at the time of President Lincoln's assassination and treated John Wilkes Booth after the murder. He was convicted of conspiring with the killers because he had set Booth's broken leg during the assassin's flight. While on Tortugas Island he worked as the prison doctor during the yellow fever epidemic. President Andrew Johnson pardoned him in 1869, and in 1979 a presidential proclamation cleared his name. He was ele...

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The United States Army is the largest branch of the United States Armed Forces and performs land-based military operations. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution, Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 and United States Code, Title 10, Subtitle B, Chapter 301, Section 3001. As the largest and senior branch of the U.S. military, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which wa...

United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 110th (1862-1865)

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