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Contains the following types of materials: correspondence, memoirs, oral histories.

Photocopies of a holograph diary and pages of accounts with a typescript transcription of the diary (2 p.). The diary is a brief account of a trip from Tennessee to Iowa in 1850, providing information regarding methods and rates of travel, prices of goods, sights along the way and weather conditions.

Letters to his wife Clara describing the boredom of waiting for battle, the illness afflicting troops and his longing to return home; official correspondence, 1862, including a holograph note from G.T. Beauregard; letter, Indian Springs, June 12, (1862) to Clara condoling her on the death of William; 3 letters Nov.-Dec. 1865 to Clara from Aunt Mary and Uncle E.F. Gill.