1863 Civil War Diary Gettysburg 28th VA DIGITAL COPY

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On January 31st, 2007, I sold this original Civil War Diary. During the auction I received emails from several people that either had relatives in the VA division or wanted a copy but they could not afford the winning bid price of $6,600.00. I scanned the entire diary at 600 DPI from cover to cover including the outside covers. I am selling two views of this diary, single page scan and double page scan. They both are included in the price. The buyer must specify 2 CDs or 1 DVD. I have not transcribed the diary. I am only selling the scanned images of the original diary. The pictures on this ebay listing are downsized from the original scanned images. The double paged view below is less than 100,000 bytes. The original scanned image is approximately 7 million bytes. Single page scans are between 2.5 & 5 megabytes. Double paged scans vary from 4.5 to 9 megabytes. The images are in a Windows jpeg format. This diary was purchased by a wealthy family in New York decades ago. To my knowledge this diary has never been transcribed or copied. The son of the wealthy family that owned the diary died in 1989 and the diary was in my possession until I sold it this year. The chaplin's name is Peter Tinsley, he died in 1908 and is buried in Virginia (according to the purchaser of the diary) Original Information copied from my Auction on January 31st 2007..... This is an original 1863 Civil War Diary that came from a multimillion dollar estate 17 years ago. The owner was a son of a very wealthy New York family. Diary belonged to: Chaplain of 28th Va Regiment, Garnetts Brigade, Picketts Divison. Start Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1863 End Date: Thursday, December, 31, 1863 Battle: Gettysburg Pages: 144 Size: 6" x 3 7/8 x 1/2" Fore edge art: all 3 sides Pocket on back cover This is a very important Civil War diary because of the Chaplain's first hand account of the Gettysburg battle. According to this diary, the Chaplain would stay with the field surgeons and await the wounded. He included many important details like dates, time, miles marched, description of scenery, smell of the battlefield, description of wounds on soldiers, names of Forts, Generals, Majors, Captains, Colonels, Doctors (male & female), amounts of artillery, figures of dead, Yankees etc. The Chaplain mentions General Kemper many times. The Chaplain's entry for July 3rd 1863 starts on page 13 and ends on page 25. All 144 pages are filled with this exception: pages 114 & 115 are blank. a small sample of the many names and places mentioned:General KemperGarnettArmisteadBlack Horse TavernBream's Mill (Bream's Tavern)From GOOGLE: Located on the north side of the Fairfield Rd. (Route 116) at the intersection with Black Horse Tavern Road. Also known as Breams' Tavern, this building is listed on the National Register of Historical Places. Francis Bream purchased the farm and tavern in 1843. The buildings and surrounding land was used extensively as a Confederate field hospital during and after the battle, including Pickett's division. /catalog/c0068.html Chaffins FarmFort McHenryFort MonroeFort NorfolkA. P. HillGeneral HeathRobert E. LeeGeneral EwellGeneral TylerGeneral Sedgwick GENERAL WARREN Captain Rankin (Yankee Officer)Major WilsonSome excertps:Page 21: Our artillery opens a terrific fire upon the enemy about 1 o'clock doing great damage to their artillery and infantry - silencing some gunsPage 24: The scene at our field hospital stand is horrid beyond description & by far the worst I have ever seenPage 25: Col'n Garnett?, shot in arm and face and badly mutilated but not mortally woundedPage 31: Gen'l Sedgwick visits Gen'l Kemper, I also see Gen'l Warren, chief of engineers. They promise to send me & others cal? sup... read more

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