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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Charles Ashley Willis Diary #1513-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Microfilm copy (filmed 2007) available.

• Reel 1: Entire collection

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Acquisitions Information

Received from Elizabeth Willis De Huff of Augusta, Ga., in August 1948.

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• Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Regiment, 1st.
• Diaries.
• Gettysburg Campaign, 1863.
• Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
• Military hospitals--United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Pennsylvania--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Diaries.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Casualties--Statistics.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Hospitals.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• Willis, Charles Ashley, fl. 1863.

Charles Ashley Willis (fl. 1863) served in Company A of the 1st South Carolina Regiment during the Gettysburg campaign in which he was captured and hospitalized. According to family, Willis was shot in the leg at the battle of the Wilderness. Willis reportedly cut out the bullet with his pocket knife and died shortly thereafter in a hospital.

Pocket diary, 6 June-3 September 1863, of Charles Ashley Willis, a Confederate soldier serving in Company A of the 1st South Carolina Regiment during the Gettysburg campaign of the Civil War in which he was captured and hospitalized. The diary includes slight entries about daily concerns, chiefly his own physical condition; a list of casualties from his company at Gettysburg; a list of members of his regiment in prison in New York; a list of patients at the Union hospital in Chester, Pa.; and a few miscellaneous memoranda.