Diary, 1864.

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Diary, 1864.

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Midler's field diary, 29 July-16 August 1864, was kept during the siege of Atlanta and is a brief but descriptive account of military movements of Sherman's forces, army conditions, and battle casualties. Among Midler's duties were caring for the wounded in army hospitals, assisting surgeons, writing to the Illinois families of dead soldiers, holding prayer meetings on the field, and carting medical supplies from nearby Marietta, Georgia. He wrote of his efforts to spread the gospel among Sherman's men and his reactions to the carnage and to the hospitalized soldiers of the Union and Confederate armies. The folder includes a typescript copy of the diary.

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Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

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Sherman was born in 1820 in Lancaster, Ohio, near the banks of the Hocking River. His father, Charles Robert Sherman, a successful lawyer who sat on the Ohio Supreme Court, died unexpectedly in 1829. He left his widow, Mary Hoyt Sherman, with eleven children and no inheritance. After his father's death, the nine-year-old Sherman was raised by a Lancaster neighbor and family friend, attorney Thomas Ewing, Sr., a prominent member of the Whig Party who served as senator from Ohio and as the first S...

Midler, Wash[ington?] L.

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Wash[ington?] L. Midler ( - ) was apparently a chaplain who served with various Illinois regiments in Gen. William T. Sherman's army during the Georgia campaign in 1864. It appears that he and his wife resided in Chicago. From the description of Diary, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 207156746 ...