Diary, 1864-1865.

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Diary, 1864-1865.

This collection comprises one of the very few surviving diaries written by a Florida soldier in the Civil War. It is even rarer in that it documents the experiences of a Florida serviceman who was incarcerated in a Union prisoner-of-war camp.

0.25 cubic ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7340960

Florida State Archive

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Gramling, Wilbur Wightman, 1843-1870.

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Wilbur Wightman Gramling was born on March 30, 1843. At some point before the Civil War his parents, Andrew Peter Gramling and Elizabeth Gramling, moved from Madison County to Centerville, Leon County, with their five children. Wilbur Gramling enlisted in Company K of the Fifth Florida Regiment at Tallahassee on February 20, 1862. His brother Irvin enrolled in the same unit. Gramling missed several months' service during the winter of 1862-1863 due to illness, but otherw...

Confederate States of America. Army. Florida Infantry Regiment, 5th

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