Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                             #3571-z
                   EDWARD WASMUTH DIARY PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Diary 4 April-19 May 1865, of the Rev. Edward
           Wasmuth, an Illinois Methodist minister who worked as
           an agent of the U.S. Christian Commission among
           soldiers and black and white residents of Memphis and
           other locations in Tennessee.  The diary was kept in a
           book of instructions to Commission agents.  In the
           diary, Wasmuth described prayer meetings, hospital
           visits, sermons, the distribution of books and
           pamphlets, conversations with southerners and
           soldiers, and tales he heard of the Civil War and
           slavery.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Afro-Americans--Tennessee--Social conditions--Civil War, 1861-
       1865.
   Clergy--Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
   Diaries--Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
   Memphis (Tenn.)--Social conditions--Civil War, 1861-1865.
   Methodist Church--Clergy--History--19th century.
   Slavery--Tennessee.
   Tennessee--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--War work.
   United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--War work.
   United States Christian Commission.
   Wasmuth, Edward, fl. 1865.

Size:  1 volume (1 folder).

Provenance:    Purchased from Alvin Lohr of Hagerstown, Md., in
               April 1962.

Access:        No restrictions.

Processing Note:   This collection was processed with support
                   from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.  

Copyright:     Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
               or their descendants, as stipulated by United
               States copyright law.