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[Identification of item], in the Charles Carroll Gray Diary, #2569-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1943

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• Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861.
• Castle Pinckney (Charleston, S.C.)
• Charleston (S.C.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Columbia (S.C.)--History.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Prisons.
• Diaries.
• Gray, Charles Carroll, 1838-1884.
• Libby Prison.
• Prisoners of war--Confederate States of America.
• Richmond (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Salisbury (N.C.)--History.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• United States. Army--Surgeons.

Charles Carroll Gray of New York was a United States Army medical officer in the first Battle of Manassas. During the Civil War, he was confined in Confederate prisons.

The collection is a diary, initially 1861-1862 and later expanded to 1877, of Charles Carroll Gray in the first Batttle of Manassas and while confined in Confederate prisons, including Libby Prison in Richmond, Va., Castle Pinckney in Charleston, S.C., and in other facilities at Columbia, S.C., and Salisbury, N.C. The diary entries are extremely detailed, especially concerning medical conditions of the prisoners and social interactions between prisoners and guards.