[Civil War journal and cased daguerreotype portrait], 1861-1864.

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[Civil War journal and cased daguerreotype portrait], 1861-1864.

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Journal kept by William L. Park, between Sept/Oct. 1861 and Sept. 26, 1864, while serving aboard the ironclad gunboat "Essex" as a member of the Western Flotilla of the U.S. Army (renamed Mississippi Squadron after transfer to U.S. Navy in 1862) during the Civil War.

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