An unusually observant and vivid diary written by a private of the 123rd New York State Volunteers who died of disease in 1862 in Virginia, illustrated with an apparently self-mounted photograph of the author, lending it a particular poignance and immediacy. While Beveridge saw no significant action, his diary offers.....
![Item #7941 [Archive of early American missionaries to Hawaii.]. John S. Emerson, et. al, Ursula...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/7941_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1674142860)
An extraordinary archive of a noted Hawaiian missionary couple, including over thirty years of epistolary journals, firsthand accounts of voyages to Micronesia and the Marquesas, numerous letters, a substantial collection of Hawaiian photos, several manuscript maps, and a charming original watercolor of the Emerson house in Waialua. Also included are.....
An important, unpublished, and exceptionally well-written “brown-water navy” journal kept between 1862 and 1863 during a critical phase in the execution of the Union’s Anaconda Plan on the Mississippi River, featuring extensive battle and contraband content as well as two important maps. Evidently from Cape Breton, Canada (some 40,000 Canadians.....
![Item #8601 [Illustrated diary of a young man in Mercer, Maine.]. William H. Harris](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8601_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701785984)
A detailed and entertaining account of life in rural Maine, written and illustrated by a young man from Mercer, with occasional teasing commentary by his three younger sisters. William Henry Harris (1856–1934) was born in Mercer, Maine, to Abbie Hatch Harris and Henry Harris, a farmer, cobbler, and violin maker.....
![Item #8264 George H. Parsons, Yorktown, VA, 148 N[ew] York Co. F. [Civil War diary of an officer...](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8264_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1701806101)
An eventful diary documenting an officer’s eleven months of service in Virginia with the 148th New York Infantry Regiment, kept in part during General Grant’s Petersburg Campaign and ending after Parsons is wounded during the Battle of Fair Oaks & Darbytown Road (27–28 October 1864) and returns home to recuperate. .....