Diary kept by Henry F. Wilson while serving as a private in the Mobile Rifles, Company K of the 3rd Alabama Infantry, during the Civil War.

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 Vir...

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Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/3872