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[Identification of item], in the Bruno Trombly Diary and Records, #4033-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Purchase 1978

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• Diaries.
• Merchants--Louisiana--History--19th century.
• New Orleans (La.)--Social conditions.
• Trombly, Bruno, fl. 1866.
• United States. Army--Military life--History.
• United States. Army--Officers--Diaries.
• United States. Army. Colored Infantry Regiment, 81st.

Diary, January-December 1866, of Bruno Trombly, apparently of Potsdam, N.Y., who was, for most of this period, a lieutenant in the 81st United States Colored Infantry at New Orleans, La.; and service records (copies only) of Trombly from the National Archives. Trombly discussed daily military and social routines, working for a merchant in New Orleans, and his struggle to decide whether to settle in Louisiana or New York State.