Name/Title
We're in a fight today: The Civil War Diaries Of Horace P. Mathews and King S. HammondEntry/Object ID
1640Description
Both men were in the Civil War 123rd NY Volunteer Infantry.
The diary of Horace P Mathews, of Co. H, covers the period from February 1863 when his unit was in winter quarters at Safford Court House, Virginia, until his discharge in June 1865.
Washington County resident King S Hammond's diary, of Co, K, provides a meticulous account of his regiment's daily activities at Elmira, NY, its garrison duty, and its baptism by fire at Petersburg, concluding the account of his year of service with a period of hospitalization, a furlough home to New York and duty on the Richmond front.
This volume includes the two sets of letters and genealogies of their families.