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No restrictions. Open for research.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Thomas Ware Diary, #1796-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Typed transcription of the five diary volumes also available. Microfilm of the typed transcription also available.

Additional Descriptive Resources

Original finding aid is filed in folder 1.

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• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Georgia Infantry Regiment, 15th.
• Gettysburg Campaign, 1863.
• Pennsylvania--Description and travel.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Diaries.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Virginia--Description and travel.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Ware, Thomas, 1838-1863.

The collection consists of a five-volume diary kept by Thomas Lewis Ware, presumably of Washington, Ga., while he was a member of the 15th Georgia Infantry Regiment, Confederate States of America, serving in Virginia and in the Gettysburg campaign, during which he was killed; and an essay or address about Jews and early Christians. The diary consists of daily entries for the period 21 July 1861-2 July 1863. Entries are often detailed descriptions of military activity or observations on towns, countryside, and civilians. Final pages of the diary are in a different hand.