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Copyright Notice

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

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Joseph Dill Alison Diary, #3267-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternative Form of Material

Excerpts from the diary published in Alabama Historical Quarterly, Fall 1947, and Civil War Times Illustrated, February 1967.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased from Bert Neville of Selma, Ala., February 1957.

Location of Originals

Location of original unknown.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, June 2010

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Alison, Joseph Dill, fl. 1861-1863.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Surgeons.
• Mississippi--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Pensacola (Fla.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Medical care.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Vicksburg (Miss.)--History--Siege, 1863.

Joseph Dill Alison (fl. 1861-1863) of Dallas County, Ala., was a surgeon in the Confederate Army stationed at Pensacola, Fla., in the summer and early winter of 1861 and in Mississippi thereafter.

The collection includes a typed transcript of the diary of Joseph Dill Alison while a surgeon in the Confederate Army stationed at Pensacola, Fla., in the summer and early winter of 1861 and in Mississippi thereafter, describing daily activities, medical facilities, and the medical situation at Vicksburg. There are gaps in the spring of 1862 and between 30 June and 26 December 1862. The diary ends with the fall of Vicksburg, 4 July 1863.