[CIVIL WAR]. Archive of items related to Sgt. James B. Parks, Co. C, 139th Pennsylvania Infantry, mortally wounded and buried at Gettysburg, highlighted by 2 diaries containing Antietam and Fredericksburg content.

parks diary family year september 1862 1861 leather featured writes december battle wear regiment entries reading wounded written fredericksburg pocket calendar covers prior attended date surface loss enlists house related view entry mustered james leechburg proceed midvale spends records additional parts bratton 1916 enlist original marched christmas closure present including separation verso pages pennsylvania buried staining binding ii-era throat 139th antietam embossing following left infantry nearly field line july fully significant edges soldier sore died evening mount inscription national home separated pieces cemetery participate 98th gettysburg identified road second memoranda inscriptions integral world morning gathered brigade came called attached different mortally diaries containing farm friends strangled howe's division spine church repair penciled built brothers months participating immediately fast fell day...our rhappahannock formed knee enjoy instead engage marye's highlighted signed lieut corners utah bears john's graphically dated afternoon company volunteer went content section free endpaper identification gilt incorrect creases pencil photographs boards foundation little john minutes till mcclelland fighting seen comes wounds 10th regt norris note vols colonel commonwealth chipping worked sick awhile fiscus countrys loop toning white approved cardstock young possibly soldiers accompanying reported representatives page brown private taught school services working attending joined oclock night small town cooking arms dinner continues fourth right smart heights february consignor watched o'clock caused battlefield bury helped moved dirt harpers taken placed battle...the recorded items device bearing armstrong county...company adhesive belleplain landing frederick photograph penna snapshot featuring rd.i handstamp subject select committee relative documents myers state cloth frasca march death quite october past activities sent bull stopped file supper corps crossed divisions closed mass stacked rebels shelled hurt hoped long heavily august joseph autograph near permitting gelatin press colo likely report singerly printers ex-james month prayer dead burried rotten just lieing commenced letterman archive light comm'd camp 1863 pass collier silver printing montrose william revised harrisburg 1865 provenance apart floam meetings throwed ferry position shelling ditches poignant cause hospital civil