Diaries

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Moore, Robert A., 1838-1863

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10-24-1862

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Written from various locations in Virginia, Gettysburg & Chickamauga, this diary details Moore's daily activities. Moore died at the Battle of Chickamauga, 20 September 1863, at the age of 25.

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Confederate States of America. Army -- Social conditions; Troop movements; Confederate States of America. Army -- Equipment; Weather; Skirmishing; Rumor -- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Patriotism; Soldiers -- Wounds and injuries; Fredericksburg, Battle of, Fredericksburg (Va.) 1862; Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; Chickamauga, Battle of, Ga., 1863; Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 17th. Company G; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865

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diaries

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Robert Augustus Moore Diary (Small Manuscripts 1978.9), Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries

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Date range: 24 October 1862 - 18 September 1863; For further biographical information on Moore & transcripts of the diary, see : Silver, James W. A Life for the Confederacy, as recorded in the Pocket Diaries of Pvt. Robert A. Moore, Co. G, 17th Mississippi Regiment, Confederate Guards, Holly Springs, Mississippi. Jackson, Tenn., McCowat-Mercer Press, 1959. Cataloged: http://umiss.lib.olemiss.edu/record=b1254723~S0

Also included in the Civil War in the American South collection.

Robert Augustus Moore Diary (Volume 3)

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