Moses A. Cleveland diary [typed transcription], 1864-1865.

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Moses A. Cleveland diary [typed transcription], 1864-1865.

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Typed transcription of the Civil War diary of Moses A. Cleveland, private in the Mass. Light Artillery, 7th Battery, and the U.S. Dept. of the Gulf during the Red River Campaign and the campaign against Mobile, Alabama. The diary describes troop movements; life at camp and training exercises; weather conditions; diseases, injuries, and deaths; fighting along the Red River and at Mansura, La.; action at Mobile, Ala., including the Battles of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely; news of Robert E. Lee's surrender and Abraham Lincoln's assassination; the end of the war; the explosion of the Mobile magazine in May 1865; and the long passage home. Cleveland also describes New Orleans, La., Mobile, Ala., and Houston, Tx., and writes about correspondence with family and friends, slavery and freed blacks, his admiration for Abraham Lincoln, the condition of the Confederate army, punishments for fighting and insubordination at camp, and the sight of Union soldiers recently released from a Confederate prison. Included is a transcription of a letter from Cleveland to his wife, sermons by Cleveland, songs, and poems. Transcribed with an introduction by Dr. Olga Fairfax. The transcription was made from a copy in private hands written by Cleveland in 1899. The text differs from another copy given to the MHS by Cleveland in 1898 (Ms. N-2056 Tall; also on microfilm, P-376, reel 2). Both copies were probably made by Cleveland from an original diary or notes kept in 1864-1865.

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