Captain, Co. B, 97th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Diary purchased in 1957. Posted from the holdings of Special Collections, University of Virginia Library. Transcribed by Mary Roy Edwards. Additional information on Hunter appreciated.
The Special Collections Dept. of the University of Virginia Library holds over 25 Civil War diaries and thousands of letters of both Union and Confederate soldiers. Noted holdings include letters of Robert E. Lee, papers of "Gray Ghost" John S. Mosby and Confederate Generals Thomas L. Rosser, Elisha F. "Bull" Paxton, and Philip St. George Cocke, and William S. Hillyer of Ulysses Grant's staff.
Ceased raining at dark & did not rain during the night; cloudy & cold to-day. Today being the anni- versary of Washington's birth day, a salute of 34 guns was fired by one battery in each division.
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