4th Sgt, Co. H., 33rd Virginia Infantry. Diary purchased in 2008. First of Civil War items to be posted from the holdings of Special Collections, University of Virginia Library. Transcribed by Mary Roy Edwards. Comments by Robert Krick. Additional information on Jones appreciated. The University of Virginia Library reserves the right to decline to post a comment or to discontinue the comments feature at any time.
The Special Collections Dept. of the University of Virginia Library holds over 25 Civil War diaries and thousands of letters of both Union and Confederate soldiers. Noted holdings include letters of Robert E. Lee, papers of "Gray Ghost" John S. Mosby and Confederate Generals Thomas L. Rosser, Elisha F. "Bull" Paxton, and Philip St. George Cocke, and William S. Hillyer of Ulysses Grant's staff.
This was a very wet & disagreeable day a good many of the company Sick. No drilling to day the men feel badly for want of exercise Capt Reppetoe sick & low & fevershed.
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