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Abstract | Charles Ashley Willis served in Company A of the 1st South Carolina Regiment during the Gettysburg campaign in which he was captured and hospitalized. Willis's pocket diary, 6 June 1863-3 September 1863, 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. |
Creator | Willis, Charles Ashley, fl. 1863. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff, 1950
Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, January 2005
Funding from the Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc., supported the encoding of this finding aid and microfilming of this collection.
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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.
Back to TopPocket 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.
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