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.
the weather pleasant there was quite an excite ment to day owing to a report that enemy were advancing. we left our encampment about 4 o'clock and marched to farfax court house. we then faced about and returned to our encampment
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