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Up for auction is the wonderful archive of 3 civil war diaries from a woman named Augusta M. Ward, whose brother Artemas Ward, was a soldier in the 15th Massachusetts Regiment and was wounded in Gettysburg. Augusta was in her 30’s when she wrote the diaries, and she followed the war closely. Included in this archive is an 1863 diary, 1864 diary, and 1865 diary. Her diaries contain numerous entries about the war, including entries on a Gettysburg and her brother being wounded, the death of Stonewall Jackson, resignation of General Hooker, Death of General Sigwick, the surrender of Lee, assass... |
