Two booklet diaries kept by Louis Filley of Bloomfield, Connecticut, as he served in the Civil War, and a New Testament with four photographs pasted inside. The photographs are headshots, including one of the woman who gave him the New Testament. Filley served with the Seventh Connecticut Infantry, Company A. He enlisted and was mustered-in a Private on 14 August 1862. He was captured 2 June 1864 at Bermuda Hundred, VA, was paroled, and promoted Corporal on 13 September 1864. He was promoted to Sergeant on 1 May 1865 and was discharged on 14 August 1865. On 21 June 1863, from St. Augustine, FL, Filley noted, "An Ordinance sargent in the Regular army committed suacide by shooting himself he was said to be deranged and has been here but a week." On 3 July 1863 Filley wrote this interesting entry regarding a musician of Company E, "Bilbro and two others were placed under arest for going to a ball dresed in ladies clothes." On Christmas day 1863 Filley implied that Company A comrade Charles DeOrsay was whipped for stealing. Company A received their Spencers on 26 December 1863 and began to drill with their new weapons. The 1863 diary contains a lock of hair and a printed sheet describing the signal flags used in Fernandina, Florida.
