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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the William Patterson Diary, #580-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

1939

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• Berkeley County (W. Va.)--History--19th century.
• Hunter, David, 1802-1886.
• Patterson, William, fl. 1863-1864.
• Shenandoah Valley Campaign, 1864 (May-August)
• Soldiers--United States--Correspondence.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Equipment and supplies.
• United States. Army--Military life--History.
• United States. Army--Supplies and stores.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• West Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

William Patterson, from near Athens, Ohio, was a federal soldier with the United States quartermaster and commissary service in Berkeley County, W. Va., and in the Shenandoah Valley in western Virginia, September 1863-July 1864.

The collection is a typed transcription (83 p.) copied from the original manuscript at Athens College, Ohio, of the diary of William Patterson. William Patterson was a federal soldier with United States quartermaster and commissary service in Berkeley County, W. Va., and in the Shenandoah Valley in western Virginia, September 1863-July 1864. The diary is chiefly concerned with camp life, behind-the-lines activity, and General David Hunter's invasion of the Shenandoah Valley.