Diary and correspondence, 1864-1896.

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Diary and correspondence, 1864-1896.

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Collection contains transcripts of Moore's 1864 diary of the Atlanta Campaign and several letters (1864-1896), chiefly from comrades with whom he had served during the Civil War.

.25 cubic ft. (1 box)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7283609

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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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...

Moore, Edward B. (Edward Burt), 1831-1901.

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Captain Edward B. Moore enlisted with the 54th Ohio Infantry in 1861. In 1864, he was with Sherman's troops at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in June, was taken prisoner near Atlanta, Georgia in July, and released in a prisoner exchange in September. After the Civil War, he moved west, living in Garden City, Kansas in the late 1880s and serving as a prison guard in Canon City, Colorado in the 1890s. Moore died in Denver, Colorado in 1901. From the description of Diary and correspond...

United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 54th.

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