(CIVIL WAR) WEAVER HENRY Manuscript Diary kept by a Private

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(CIVIL WAR.) WEAVER, HENRY. Manuscript Diary kept by a Private in the 105th Pennsylvania Volunteers, with descriptions from Grant's Overland Campaign, including Battle of the Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court House, and a section written while on furlough with intersting comments on possible sexual exploits. In a printed calendar diary for the year 1864. 8vo, wallet-style morocco; written in pencil, at times quite faded. With a carte-de-visite portrait of Weaver in uniform, by a Virginia photographer. Vp, 21 February 1864-24 January 1865

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"[May 6] we drove them some and fought all day. One in the morning W. J. Clyae was shot . . . [May 10] we got shelled very hard was some killed and wounded . . . [May 12] drove the rebels about three miles and fought all day . . . [May 19] we had a smart fight and we took about eleven hundred prisoners . . . [June 18] we made a charge on the rebels and was repulsed this morning and layed in the skirmish line all day . . . [Aug. 29] got a furlough and we left Davids and went to New York . . . [Sept. 7] went to town to a party and got a girl D. Kelly . . . [Sept. 27] we had a party that night and I held Libby Henry that night . . . [Oct. 27] marched about three miles and we run the rebels and drove them about four miles and we had a big fight in the evening . . . [Nov. 8] I gave old Lincoln a vote for president.