Description

Contains accounts of the affairs of the 31st Iowa Infantry from its organization in the fall of 1862 to its subsequent service in Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia. Includes accounts of the Yazoo Expedition, December 1862 to January 1863; expedition against Fort Hindman, Arkansas; operations during the Vicksburg campaign, including the sieges of Vicksburg and Jackson, Mississippi; the Battles of Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge; engagement at Ringgold Gap; and operations during the Atlanta campaign, including the Battle of Resaca, the Siege of Atlanta, and the Battle of Jonesboro. Also includes information on marches. The back of the diary contains postwar accounts of Orcutt and Bros. Thus the diary may have been written by Noel P. Orcutt or Darius M. Orcutt, both of whom served in the 31st Iowa Infantry during the war.

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Missouri Historical Society

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