Diaries and Personal Accounts

Diaries, Letters, and Accounts

Union

• General Ulysses S. Grant

• Charles R. Allen, 2nd Illinois Cavalry [diary]

• Pvt. Gouldsmith D. Molineaux, 8th Illinois Infantry [diary]

• Sgt. Ira Blanchard, 20th Illinois Infantry

• G. B. McDonald, 30th Illinois Infantry

• B. F. Boring, 30th Illinois Infantry

• Captain James Burnett, 30th Illinois Infantry

• William S. Morris, 31st Illinois Infantry

• Wilbur Crummer, 45th Illinois Infantry

• Brig. Gen. Joseph Stockton, 72nd Illinois Infantry

• Arthur P. McCullough, Co. D, 81st Illinois Infantry

• Sgt. Aaron Dunbar, Co. B, 93rd Illinois Infantry [book]

• Lt. W. R. Eddington, 97th Illinois Infantry

• Sgt. S. A. Rollins, 97th Illinois Infantry

• Capt. Alexander W. Geddes, 118th Illinois Vol. Infantry

• William H. Carroll, Co. D, 24th Indiana [diary]

• Charles E. Comstock, Co. G, 34th Indiana [diary]

• Captain John A. Ritter, Surgeon, 49th Indiana [letters]

• Major S. H. M. Byers, 5th Iowa [diary]

• Lt. John Quincy Adams Campbell, 5th Iowa [Ripley Bee]

• Pvt. James Warren McPherson, Co. B, 10th Iowa [diary]

• Pvt. Ackless W. Geeslin. Co. H, 22nd Iowa [letters]

• Aquilla Standifird, 23th Iowa

• Sgt. Charles A. Longley, 24th Iowa

• Corporal James Oxley, Company H, 24th Iowa [diary]

Pvt. John W. Hiatt, Company F, 28th Iowa [letters]

• Alonzo L. Brown, 4th Minnesota

• Colonel George Boardman Boomer, 26th Missouri [letters]

• Corporal P. Mitchell, 16th Ohio Battery

• Sgt. Osborn Oldroyd, 20th Ohio Infantry [diary]

• Captain Cyrus Hussey 48th Ohio Infantry [diary]

• Colonel William H. Raynor, 56th Ohio Infantry [diary]

• Corporal Myron Loop, 68th Ohio Infantry [diary]

• Rev. Thomas M. Stevenson, Chaplain, 78th Ohio Infantry [letter]

• Jenkin Lloyd Jones, An Artilleryman's Diary, 6th Wisconsin Battery [diary]

• James S. Reeves, Surgeon, 78th Ohio Infantry [letter]

• Lt. Col. William F. Vilas, 23rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

• "The Battle at Edward's Station or Champion's Hill,"New York World [article]

• "The Battle at Edward's Station or Champion's Hill,"The Charleston Mercury [article]

• "Three Years with Grant," Chicago Times [article]

 Confederate

• Gen. Alfred Cumming's Letter to Gen. Stephen D. Lee

• William A. Montgomery, Scout [diary]

• Maj. Samuel H. Lockett, Chief Engineer

• Lt. William Drennan, Ordnance Officer, Featherston's Brigade[ letters]

• Corporal Ephraim McDowell Anderson, Co. G, 2nd Missouri Infantry [diary]

• Dr. W. T. Moore, First Mississippi Light Artillery

• Captain Samuel Jones Ridley, Confederate Medal of Honor, First Mississippi Light Artillery

• Pvt. L. S. Flatau, Cowan's Battery, First Mississippi Light Artillery

• Pvt. J. G. Spencer, Cowan's Battery, First Mississippi Light Artillery

• Pvt. A. H. Reynolds, 19th Arkansas Infantry

• W. O. Connor, Cherokee Artillery [diary]

Featured Articles

Barbecue at Champion Hill   The New Mississippi, 1890 Janesville Daily Gazette Memoir of Pvt. James Warren   McPherson, 10th Iowa Lieut. Col Leonidas Horney   Killed at Champion Hill Union Occupies Cook Plantation   Rebecca Drake & Sue Moore Diary of Pvt. Arthur McCullough   Co. D, 81st Ill Discovering Names & Faces of   Civil War Soldiers Fighting for Vicksburg   B.F. Boring, 30th Ill. Alvin P. Hovey Reminisces   Rebecca B. Drake "Three Years with Grant"   Sylvanus Cadwallader Memorial Dedicated at St Albans   Rebecca B. Drake America History Tours Visits   Champion Hill, Oct 2, 2009 Memoirs Historical and Personal   Ephraim Anderson, 1st Missouri 2009 Anniversary Event   Rebecca B. Drake Tilghman Monument Dedication   Rebecca B. Drake Five Generations of Sid  Champions, Rebecca B. Drake The Long Road Home   Pvt. Myron B. Loop 1864 Pywell Photograph   Big Black River Station Coker House to be Razed   Rebecca B. Drake Administering Last Rites   Father John Bannon Maltida Champion: "I was in   the Cellar During the Fight" Mary Dabney Ware:  "Behind Enemy Lines" Margie's 1960 Scrapbook:   Charm, Dot & Paul Jones

Battle of Big Black River Bridge   Rebecca Blackwell Drake Champion Dedication   Grady Howell. Jr. Capt. Samuel Ridley:  "Bravest of the Brave" Battle of Champion Hill:   Killed and Wounded The Battle of Baker's Creek   W.T. Moore, Miss Light Artillery Charles E. Comstock Diary,   Co G, 34th Indiana Gen. Cumming's Letter   to Gen. Stephen D. Lee Matilda Champion:   "A Sorrow's Crown of Sorrow" Vignettes of Champion Hill   Margie Bearss Champions of Champion Hill   Rebecca B. Drake Diary of William Montgomery:   Confederate Scout Will Montgomery: Scout   Kay Cornelius Brother Against Brother   Rebecca B. Drake History of the 78th Ohio   Rev. Stevenson, Chaplain Champion Hills   Alonzo L. Brown, 4th Minnesota Battle of Champion Hill   G. B. McDonald, 30th Illinois The Death of Gen John Bowen   Rebecca B. Drake Lt. William Drennan:   Letters to His Wife The Defense of Vicksburg   Maj. Samuel Lockett Letters of George B. Boomer   Mary Boomer Stone Vivid Experiences   Pvt. A. H. Reynolds, 19th Ark.

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