Diary of Isaac Wilde, 1862, Feb. 21 -- Nov. 21.

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Diary of Isaac Wilde, 1862, Feb. 21 -- Nov. 21.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79371029

A small pocket diary, with entries running from Feb. 21 to Nov. 21, 1862; the bulk penned between Apr. 4 and the late May. The brief entries cover the advance to Manassas, Va. (Mar. 10-15), Howards Mill (Apr. 4), Warwick Road (Apr. 5), Siege of Yorktown (Apr. 5-May 4), Battle of Williamsburg (May 5), Expedition to James River (May 25-26), and the Battle of Fair Oaks (May 31-June 1). The entries for June 25 - July 1 (Seven Days before Richmond) are blank except for a short entry on June 28. The rest of the occasional entries are mostly miscellaneous notes and accounts.

85 leaves, 10 cm., pocket diary, in pencil

Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens

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SNAC Resource ID: 8227051

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Wilde, Isaac E., fl. 1862.

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Isaac E. Wilde, resident of Chester, Delaware Co., Pa., private of Co. I of the 3rd Regiment Cavalry (60th Volunteers; Young's Kentucky Light Cavalry). From the description of Diary of Isaac Wilde, 1862, Feb. 21 -- Nov. 21. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 79371029 ...

United States. Army. Pennsylvania Cavalry Regiment, 3rd (1861-1865)

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