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Abstract | Lieutenant C. Bayard Springer of Company I, 9th Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers served in various coastal North Carolina locations. The collection includes the typed transcription of a diary kept by Springer while stationed on Roanoke Island and around New Bern, N.C., January-July 1862. Springer briefly recounted the capture of Roanoke Island, the surrender of Fort Macon, skirmishes, deaths, weather, and other matters. |
Creator | Springer, C. Bayard, fl. 1862. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009
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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C. Bayard Springer (fl. 1862) was an officer in the Union army who served with Company I, 9th Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers in various North Carolina locations.
Back to TopThe collection includes a typed transcription of the diary of Lieutenant C. Bayard Springer, of the 9th Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, while stationed on Roanoke Island and around New Bern, N.C., January-July 1862. Springer briefly recounted the capture of Roanoke Island, the surrender of Fort Macon, skirmishes, alarms, disease, mail and pay received, deaths, weather, picket duty and expeditions, money borrowed, and other matters. Additional locations specifically mentioned in the diary include Pamlico Sound, Nags Head, Havelock Station, and Newport, N.C.
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