| Summary: | The first few entries were written before the war; they discuss Wilson's work as a clerk in a cotton house and his social life in Mobile. Most of the diary, however, focuses on his military service during the Civil War. He describes camp life and his fellow soldiers; troop movements through Virginia; battles in which he was involved (including Seven Pines, Fredericksburg, Winchester, and the Wilderness Campaign; and travel and social life in Alabama just after the end of the war. Dates for the year 1860 are printed on the pages of the diary, but Wilson ignored them; pages that he left blank are not included here.
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