Category Archives: 1851-1900

Independence Seaport Museum: Steam Sloop Wyoming logbook and journal (1)

1851-1900, Contributing Libraries, Independence Seaport Museum, ,
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Journal kept by William W. Dwier, acting carpenter, aboard the Steam Sloop Wyoming during the United States Civil War. The ship was sent to the Pacific to search for the CSS Alabama. Dwier describes day-to-day life on board the ship in the Pacific, maintenance, and repairs required after hitting rocks or coral reefs. The ship traveled through the Straits of Bernadino to the Phillippines, to China, and to Japan. In China, the ship made port in Macao, Shanghai, Ningpo (where the ship was sent to protect American inhabitants in case of battle), Amoy. A description of the Wyoming’s participation in the battle of Shimonoseki with the Japanese on July 16, 1863. In the journal, Dwier frequently mentions ships that they pass, the scenery, the weather, illness (particularly cholera), supplies brought on board (especially coal), and purchases he made in ports. He only occasionally mentions military events taking place in the North and South of the United States of America.(Note: Beginning at page 164 of the page turner, the pages are inverted. Researchers may want to download the entire manuscript and rotate the affected pages for easier viewing.)

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Independence Seaport Museum: Steam Sloop Wyoming logbook and journal (2)

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Log book and journal kept by William W. Dwier, acting carpenter, aboard the Steam Sloop Wyoming during the United States Civil War. The ship was sent to the Pacific to search for the CSS Alabama. The first part of this volume contains a log and documents the date, the days steaming, latitude, longitude, distance run, and remarks for most days from 1861 to 1864. On page 48, Dwier continues his journal (from volume 1) with the first entry describing the battle of Shimonoseki on July 16, 1863. The next entry is for September 17, 1863 and runs until July 23, 1864 when the voyage ended in Philadelphia. As in Dwier’s journal contained in Volume 1, these journal entries describe the weather and sailing conditions, port cities, and passing ships as the ship and crew traveled from Japan to Malaysia to South Africa to Saint Helena to Saint Thomas to Philadelphia.

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State Library of Pennsylvania: Civil War diaries (1865)

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The 1865 volume is the fourth in a series of four pocket diaries of previously unknown authorship. Written by Brigadier General George R. Snowden, a lieutenant at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, later the Major-General of the National Guard of Pennsylvania.

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State Library of Pennsylvania: Civil War diaries (1864)

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The 1864 volume is thirs in a series of 4 pocket diaries of previously unknown authorship. Written by Brigadier General George R. Snowden, a lieutenant at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, later the Major-General of the National Guard of Pennsylvania.

Title: Civil War diaries
Authors: Snowden, George Randolph
Call number: 973.781 Sn62
(Harrisburg, PA, State Library of Pennsylvania)
Publisher: State Library of Pennsylvania
Language: English.
Date: 1864
Place: Venango, Pa.; Harrisburg, Pa.; Maryland
Subjects topical: City and town life — Pennsylvania — 1862-1865 — Personal narratives, Weather conditions — Pennsylvania — 1862-1865 — Personal narratives
Subjects geographic: Pennsylvania — History — Civil War 1861-1865 — Personal narratives
United States — History — Civil War 1861-1865 — Personal narratives, Venango Pa, Harrisburg Pa, Maryland

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State Library of Pennsylvania: Civil War diaries (1863)

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The 1863 volume is second in a series of 4 pocket diaries of previously unknown authorship. Written by Brigadier General George R. Snowden, a lieutenant at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, later the Major-General of the National Guard of Pennsylvania.

Title: Civil War diaries
Authors: Snowden, George Randolph
Call number: 973.781 Sn62
(Harrisburg, PA, State Library of Pennsylvania)
Publisher: State Library of Pennsylvania
Language: English.
Date: 1863
Place: Venango, Pa.; Harrisburg, Pa.; Maryland; Gettysburg, Pa.
Subjects topical: City and town life — Pennsylvania — 1862-1865 — Personal narratives, Weather conditions — Pennsylvania — 1862-1865 — Personal narratives
Subjects geographic: Pennsylvania — History — Civil War 1861-1865 — Personal narratives, United States — History — Civil War 1861-1865 — Personal narratives, Venango Pa, Harrisburg, Pa, Maryland, Gettysburg Pa

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State Library of Pennsylvania: Civil War diaries

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The 1862 volume is the first in a series of 4 pocket diaries of previously unknown authorship. Written by Brigadier General George R. Snowden, a lieutenant at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, later the Major-General of the National Guard of Pennsylvania.

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The Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia: Journal of Charles Ashmead Schaeffer

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Diary of Charles Ashmead Schaeffer (1843-1898), chemist, United States Civil War veteran, and president of the University of Iowa, 1887-1898. In this diary, he keeps a nearly-daily record of his life and involvement in the United States government’s Civil War efforts. Description of daily chemical work for the Treasury in Boston, Massachusetts, travel, and military combat in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Entries from Alexandria, Virginia; Washington, District of Columbia; Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts; Philadelphia, Germantown, Harrisburg, and Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

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Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Emilie Davis Diaries, 3 (1865)

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The third of three diaries by Emilie Davis, a young African-American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War. The three diaries, 1863-1865, contain memories of her day-to-day life with mention of some wartime events, including the fall of Vicksburg and draft riots in New York City during 1863. Davis was likely in her late teens or early twenties when she began writing her diary in 1863. Although a great deal of information is recorded, typical diary entries are not very detailed. Daily entries provide a glimpse of the life of a young woman in Philadelphia, including her visits with family and friends and her experiences attending weddings, funerals, lectures, school, and church fairs. Most of the news Davis recorded in her diary focuses on the Civil War. National events, such as National Fast Day (April 1863), the 1863 New York draft riots, and the 1864 presidential election, are mentioned. In July 1863, she observed that people in the Harrisburg area were fleeing that part of the state and moving towards Philadelphia as a result of the Battle of Gettysburg. Emancipation was also recorded in Emilie’s diary , as was the fall of Vicksburg and President Lincoln’s assassination.

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Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Emilie Davis Diary, 2 (1864)

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The second of three diaries by Emilie Davis, a young African-American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War. The three diaries, 1863-1865, contain memories of her day-to-day life with mention of some wartime events, including the fall of Vicksburg and draft riots in New York City during 1863. Davis was likely in her late teens or early twenties when she began writing her diary in 1863. Although a great deal of information is recorded, typical diary entries are not very detailed. Daily entries provide a glimpse of the life of a young woman in Philadelphia, including her visits with family and friends and her experiences attending weddings, funerals, lectures, school, and church fairs. Most of the news Davis recorded in her diary focuses on the Civil War. National events, such as National Fast Day (April 1863), the 1863 New York draft riots, and the 1864 presidential election, are mentioned. In July 1863, she observed that people in the Harrisburg area were fleeing that part of the state and moving towards Philadelphia as a result of the Battle of Gettysburg. Emancipation was also recorded in Emilie’s diary , as was the fall of Vicksburg and President Lincoln’s assassination.

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Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Emilie Davis Diary, 1 (1863)

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The first of three diaries by Emilie Davis, a young African-American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War. The three diaries, 1863-1865, contain memories of her day-to-day life with mention of some wartime events, including the fall of Vicksburg and draft riots in New York City during 1863. Davis was likely in her late teens or early twenties when she began writing her diary in 1863. Although a great deal of information is recorded, typical diary entries are not very detailed. Daily entries provide a glimpse of the life of a young woman in Philadelphia, including her visits with family and friends and her experiences attending weddings, funerals, lectures, school, and church fairs. Most of the news Davis recorded in her diary focuses on the Civil War. National events, such as National Fast Day (April 1863), the 1863 New York draft riots, and the 1864 presidential election, are mentioned. In July 1863, she observed that people in the Harrisburg area were fleeing that part of the state and moving towards Philadelphia as a result of the Battle of Gettysburg. Emancipation was also recorded in Emilie’s diary , as was the fall of Vicksburg and President Lincoln’s assassination.

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