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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Joseph Pryor Fuller Papers, #2218-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 20th.
• Diaries.
• Families--Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Fuller, Joseph Pryor, 1841-1918.
• Point Lookout (Md.)
• Rock Island (Ill.)--History--19th century.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Diaries.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.

Joseph Pryor Fuller was a member of the 20th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia.

The collection contains Fuller's diary, 1864, and letters from him to his sister from places where he was stationed, from prisons at Point Lookout, Md., and Rock Island, Ill., and from his home in Georgia. The diary and letters discuss fighting, camp life, other military activities, and family matters.