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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC03131.09.01 |
| From Archive Folder | Unassociated Civil War Documents: Miscellaneous Dates |
| Title | Diary of William O. Rome |
| Date | 1861-1862 |
| Author | Rome, William O. (fl. 1861-1863) |
| Document Type | Diary |
| Content Description | Autograph manuscript signed. Contain entries dated from 1861 to 1862. Reports on the daily activities of soldiering and camp life. The diary also contains Rome family birth and death records (2 October) and other entries in another hand, including a report on Rome's death and funeral. Evidently while Rome was in the hospital, which he appears to have been for the entire period from 2 July 1862 to 5 September 1862, he used bottom parts of pages to write in gray ink what look like commonplace book entries, for example copies of poems, notes on presidential elections, and list of names of men in Ward 5 of the hospital. Approximately 186 pages. |
| Subjects | Election Medical History Civil War Military History Union Forces Soldier's Diary Genealogy Military Camp Death Hospital Health and Medical Poetry Election President |
| People | Rome, William O. (fl. 1861-1863) |
| Place written | Various |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Health & Medicine |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Additional Information | Enlisted in the Union Army on 10 October 1861at Monticello, New York as a Private. On 10 October 1861 he mustered into "K" Co. New York 56th Infantry. He was discharged for disability on 4 March 1863 at New Berne, North Carolina. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
| Civil War: Unit | 56th New York Infantry, K Company |
| Related documents | William O. Rome to his mother William O. Rome to his mother |