HARRISON ALLSPAUGH DIARIES
Collection Dates: 1861 -- 1865
.5 linear ft.
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Posted to Internet: April 2002
Acquisition Note:
This collection was a gift of Lucy Shelton Stewart and Helen S. Claassen,
1954
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Scope and Contents
Diaries recounting
the Civil War experiences of Jacob Harrison Allspaugh of the 31st Ohio Infantry
regiment. Primarily describing the war in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Georgia.
Allspaugh was a resident of Rock Rapids, Iowa, in his later years.
Inventory
Folder 1: Diary Septemer 13, 1861 to September 13, 1862, with 36 page transcript
Folder 2: Diary September 14, 1862 to January 27, 1863, with 37 page transcript
Folder 3: Diary January 27, 1862 to July 14, 1863, with 38 page transcript
Folder 4: Diary July 15, 1863 to October 12, 1863, with 15 page transcript
Folder 5: Diary October 13, 1863 to January 5, 1864, with 14 page transcript
Folder 6: Diary January 17, 1864 to July 12, 1864, with 10 page transcript
Folder 7: Diary July 12, 1864 to November 5, 1864
Folder 8: Diary November 8, 1864 to January 15, 1865
Folder 9: Diary January 16, 1865 tp August 2, 1865
Folder 10: Typescript of poem "Moonlight Burial" by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Folder 11: Tribute to Ira Marsh by Allspaugh
