DIARIES OF WENDELL D. WILTSIE

MsC 78

Collection Dates: 1863 -- 1865
5 items

Collection Guide

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Guide Contents

Administrative Information

Biographical and Historical Information

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Acquisition and Processing Information

Inventory


Administrative Information

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Biographical Note

Wendell D. Wiltsie was a soldier in the Union Army, 23rd Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company E. He was born to James and Rahcel (Dorn) Wiltsie in Hannibal, New York on October 1, 1835. He and his wife Jennie had only one child, Rose Marie. Wiltise died sometime before July 31, 1929 in Saginaw, Michigan. Wendell had a brother, James, who was killed during the war.


Scope and Contents

This collection consists of three diaries written by Wiltsie during the Civil War, as well as a typed version of the entries of the first diary from October 1, 1863, to January 8, 1864, and a single diary entry dated December 15, [1864]?.

J. Moeller September 2004


Acquisition and Processing Information

Guide posted to Internet: September 2004


Inventory

Diary 1: October 1, 1863, to May 31, 1864

Diary 2: June 1, 1864, to December 19, 1864

Diary 3: January 1, 1865, to July 5, 1865

Entry dated December 15, [1864]?

Typed diary entries

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