The diary postdates Cartmell's active service kept at Retirement, it includes entries running from November 1864 to October 1866, with several earlier and later memoranda. During the war Cartmell served the Confederacy in a number of administrative, military, and intelligence capacities. He was raised on his father's 600-acre estate near Winchester, called Retirement. Thomas Kemp Cartmell (1838-1920) was the seventh child of Mordecai and Eliza Campbell Cartmell of Frederick County, Virginia. 1 vol., 32 cm., 127 leaves, with 252 pages of manuscript entries. The volume has sporadic daily entries, some reaching 50 words or more entries are most frequent in May-June and September-December. For the diary's duration Bosworth's regiment was attached to IX Corps, Army of the Potomac, serving in Virginia in the Overland campaign and before Petersburg. 1844) of Hartford, Oxford County, Maine, kept as a member of Co. 1 vol., 19 cm., 90 leaves, with 71 pages of entries. From August through December Boardman was away from the regiment, convalescing from an illness contracted at Vicksburg. Included are descriptions of the siege of Vicksburg. His diary contains daily entries ranging from 1 January to 31 December 1863 entries for 16 days are lacking. 1833) was a resident of Salem, Olmsted County, Minnesota, who from 1861 to 1865 served as corporal and sergeant in Company B, 3rd Minnesota Infantry. partly printed, entitled Pocket Diary for 1863 13 cm., 66 leaves, with 121 pages of manuscript entries in Boardman's hand. Most of the volume consists of post-war accounts. H, 13th Maine Infantry, containing six pages of dated wartime entries (19 September to 1 October 1864) and a few pages of wartime accounts. 1 vol., 13 cm., 49 leaves, with 51 pages of entries. Entries extend from 18 June to 11 September 1863, and provide accounts of several key engagements in Arkansas, including the attack on Helena and the defense of Little Rock. At the time the diary was written Barb was serving in Archibald Dobbin's 1st Arkansas Cavalry (CS). Though the author of this Confederate diary never identifies himself by name, the manuscript can be attributed to Thomas Jacob Barb (1842-1899), of Batesville, Independence County, Arkansas. 1 vol., 14 cm., 18 leaves, with 37 pages of manuscript entries in Barb's hand. Arthur's entries describe three distinct expeditions or campaigns, the most important of which culminated in the battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas (7 December 1862). The diary includes dated entries ranging from 20 October 1862 to 12 June 1863 during this time the regiment was attached to the Army of the Frontier, serving in Missouri and Arkansas. He was mustered in to the 20th Wisconsin in August 1862 and served in that unit for the duration of the war, ultimately rising to 1st lieutenant. Arthur was a lead miner, from Beetown, Grant County, Wisconsin. 1837) as 1st sergeant and 2nd lieutenant in Co. 1 vol., 15 cm., 47 leaves, with 90 pages of manuscript entries in Arthur's hand. Much of the narrative content was written during the last year of the war among the subjects treated most extensively are the Confederate defense of Mobile in the summer of 1864 and Alexander's subsequent imprisonment at Elmira, New York. The diary includes dated entries ranging from June 1862 to May 1865 undated entries probably extend back to 1861. Alexander was captured and paroled three times, having been present at the surrenders of Fort Donelson, Tennessee (1862) Port Hudson, Louisiana (1863) and Fort Morgan, Alabama (1864). From 1861 to 1865 he served as private and sergeant in the Maury Artillery Battery and the 1st Tennessee Heavy Artillery Regiment, Company B (3rd). Thomas Benton Alexander (1839-1928) was a native of Henry County, Tennessee, and was working as a farm laborer in Maury County when, in October 1861, he was mustered in to Confederate service. 1 vol., 13 cm., 59 leaves, with 118 pages of manuscript entries in Alexander's hand. Diaries included in the drop down menu to the left, or highlighted in the list below, are accessible online as images and textual transcriptions. What follows is a list of Civil War related diaries and journals from the manuscript holdings in the Department of Special Collections, University Libraries of Notre Dame. Diaries and Journals of the American Civil War
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