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exchange of letters with Capt. William Cook, Feb. 1865, concerning
the location of Whitman's brother, Capt. George W.
Whitman, a prisoner of war in the Confederacy.
Originals at Yale University.
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Whitten, John Pvt., 5th Iowa Volunteers
Diary, 1862-65. 1 v.
Contains information on the participation of the 5th Iowa
in the Battle of Iuka, Miss., the Siege of Corinth, the Vicksburg
Campaign (particularly the battles of Champion's Hill and
Jackson), and a detailed account of Whitten's experiences as a
prisoner of war at Libby Prison, Belle Isle, and Andersonville.
Includes comments on the arrival, transfer, and exchange of
prisoners, escape attempts, disease, deaths, and the release of
prisoners at Andersonville, Ga., at the end of the war.
1021
Wigfall, Louis Trezevant
(1816-1874) Gen., CSA; C.S. Senator, Texas
Family papers, 1858-1909. ca. 550 items.
Contains about 75 letters to Wigfall from his son, Lt. F.
Halsey Wigfall, concerning the Peninsular, Antietam, Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville, Atlanta, and Franklin and Nashville
campaigns, and operations along the Rapidan and Rappahannock
Rivers in the fall of 1863. Includes remarks on camp
life and fortifications in northern Virginia during the winter of
1861-62, training, marches, morale, casualties, diet, supplies,
entertainment, the organization and strength of various artillery
units, disease, medical care, appointments and promotions,
generalship, furloughs, the suffering of noncombatants, and
reaction in the army to the removal of General Johnston during
the Atlanta Camgaign. Also includes a detailed account of
the movements of Gen. John Bell Hood after the fall of Atlanta
and a copy of Hood's preliminary report on the Franklin and
Nashville Campaign. Letters from Gen. Joseph E. Johnston to
Wigfall, 1862-65, discuss Johnston's frustrations with officials
in Richmond, his personal feud with Jefferson Davis, military
organization and strategy, appointments and promotions, troop
morale, generalship, reinforcements, and various aspects of the
Peninsular, Vicksburg, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and
Atlanta campaigns. Miscellaneous items comprise letters to
Wigfall on military affairs from P. G. T. Beauregard, Clement
C. Clay, Richard S. Ewell, Wade Hampton, John Bell Hood,
Robert M. T. Hunter, Ralph Izard, Robert E. Lee, James
Longstreet, Francis Pickens, Leonidas Polk, Robert Barnwell
Rhett, and John A. Wharton; copies of letters in the papers of
the Confederate War Department, Feb. 18-Mar. 13, 1865, by
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