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[Identification of item], in the Donelson Caffery Jenkins Diary, #1932, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Diaries.
• Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Military hospitals--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Jenkins, Donelson Caffery, b. 1841.
• Shiloh, Battle of, 1862.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Hospitals.
• United States. Army--Medical care--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

MICROFILM ONLY. Originals returned to private owner in 1951. Intermittent diaries, 1862 and 1864-1865, and a few related papers of a Confederate officer from Louisiana. The diaries relate Jenkins's experiences up to the battle of Shiloh in which he was wounded and captured, his sojourn at the federal hospital in Louisville, a trip to Richmond to regain his commission, and campaigning in Georgia late in the war.