(CIVIL WAR--MASSACHUSETTS.) Sillars, Malcolm. Manuscript diary of an officer...

diary sillars recruiting malcolm officer missing dated entries home pages period december 1864 portion theme littel written learned 1837-1913 time described mentions granted survived signed war--massachusetts manuscript 17th beginning massachusetts great july read register 1863 proclimation shall infantry roll grant doze newbern leaf leaves togather poor coulerd celebration terms inches morocco cover internal danvers june troops received furloughs source bitterness return includes financial south private mission oversee pictures missed wrote heavey returned shoe original backstrip detached volume accounts correspondence shoemaker virginia soon promoted articulate insecurity assuming command recurring typical edication seeing general look like chance president lincoln week later bern newport barracks african-american fought negros going celibrate anivesary emancipition mustered expiration re-enlisting 40-day days leave can't honor mail birth second entry death manufacturer raised request rejected january lieutenant educated element improve north regiments petersburg verry regiment anxious eldest large furlough civil 1865 enlisted captain account felt august carolina times lost sillars's particularly september family with--a verso body speaks