W.B. Emmons was a soldier with the 34th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War. In his diary, he writes about the Atlanta Campaign, the end of the war, and Lincoln's assassination.
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Letters from Underwood to his wife, Sophie, and two from her to him, while he was an assistant surgeon of the 12th Regiment of the Iowa Infantry during the Civil War.
Thomas C. Durant made a fortune smuggling contraband cotton from the Confederacy during the Civil War. The schooners "Julius Webb" and "John Lenthall" were chartered to carry food supplies to Union troops on Fernandina Beach in Florida. John...