Newberry Library - Ferdinand Kilbourne Civil War diary in Pitman shorthand [vol. 02], 1861-1864

Ferdinand Kilbourne Civil War diary in Pitman shorthand [vol. 02], 1861-1864

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Open book Ferdinand Kilbourne Civil War diary in Pitman shorthand [vol. 2], 1861-1864

Title Ferdinand Kilbourne Civil War diary in Pitman shorthand [vol. 02], 1861-1864

Creator Kilbourne, Ferdinand

Date 1861-1864

Place United States

Subjects Shorthand, Soldiers, United States

Description Cataloged separately, Kilbourne's copies of The Book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments; and other rites and ceremonies of the Church ... . New York : Protestant Episcopal Soc. for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge, 1858 and The hand-book of standard or American phonography : in five parts / by Andrew J. Graham. New York : A.J. Graham, 1858.

Summary Two pocket diaries, one for 1861, the other for 1864, belonging to Pvt. Ferdinand Kilbourne (Kilbourn) of Covington, Tioga County, Pa. Kilbourne, a soldier in the 1st Rifles, Company I of the 42nd Pennsylvania Regiment--the famous "Bucktail Regiment"--has written the entries in each diary, from Jan. 1-Dec. 31, in Pitman shorthand. The Bucktails trained at Camp Curtin, Harrisburg until June 1861, when they joined the Army of the Potomac in and near Washington, D.C., where they spent the next four years. During those years, they fought in many battles, such as Ball's Bluff, Harrisonburg, Mechanicsville, Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Manassas, Bristoe Station, and Spotsylvania. Endpapers and the first and last leaves of both diaries also contain miscellaneous names and addresses, fragments of verse, accounts of money and postage borrowed and lent, purchases (reams of paper and envelopes), a list of articles of clothing issued by the army, and a list of authors, perhaps to be read, or already read, including classic writers, Thucydides, Livy, Polybius, Sallust; and modern historians Prescott, Gibbon, Robertson, and Bancroft. In the 1864 diary, Kilbourne records the sum of two dollars received from Dr. H. Kilbourne for hewing timber, perhaps a reference to his father [?] Dr. Henry Kilbourne (b. 1802) of Covington, originally from Shrewsbury, Vt. In the 1861 diary, which begins in Camp Curtin, Kilbourne states that if he should die, the diary should be sent to H. Kilbourne, Jr., in Covington, Pa., possibly an older brother [?]

Extent 2 items ; 15 cm or smaller.

Format Diaries, Personal narratives

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Call Number Midwest MS 265

BibID 218970

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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Size 997px × 1570px 4.51 MB

Filename 992189708805867_midwest_ms_265_vol_02_001.tif

Unique Identifier NL1Z7SN