Orion Books, NY. Excellent memoir based on the diary of Daniel Chisholm who served 116th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, part of the Union 2nd Corps. Chisholm fought in the Overland Campaign through the end of the war. After he used his letters home from the war as well as notes from his hometown fellow soldier to piece together the notebook. Very good copy of the stated first edition in a very good dust jacket. 202 pages.

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Title: The Civil War Notebook of Daniel Chisholm, A Chronicle of Daily Life in the Union Army 1864-1865
Publisher: Orion Books, NY.
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0517571609
ISBN 13: 9780517571606
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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The author's letters home to his family describe his experiences as an ordinary soldier during the Civil War

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Samuel Clear and the brothers Chisholm, all three from Uniontown, Pa., served in the same company during the final 13 months of the Civil War. Daniel Chisholm later collected the letters he had written home and some of his brother Alexander's and, along with a war-time diary loaned to him by Clear, transcribed everything into a private notebook. The diary and letters are studded with memorable verbal snapshots of the battles and in-between times from the pragmatic viewpoint of the enlisted man: inviting a starving Confederate deserter to share breakfast; treating diarrhea with "Burnt cheese, Gun powder, and Whiskey"; the hanging of Union deserters while the troops jeered; Confederate attacks ("On they came with a woman-like scream"). The material also reveals personal reactions to Lee's surrender, the assassination of Lincoln and the two-day victory march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington. Daniel Chisholm's notebook, edited by Menge, a descendant, and Shimrak, a friend of Menge, is a rare find.
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