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Size | 2 items |
Abstract | Joseph Heft was from Coshocton County, Ohio. He was drafted for service in the Union Army on 21 September 1864. The collection contains the diary, 1864-1865, 1870, of Joseph Heft, who served in the 78th Ohio Infantry Regiment in the Army of the Tennessee. The diary records the movements of the 78th Ohio on William T. Sherman's March to the Sea and March through the Carolinas. Heft detailed the miles marched, the conditions of the march, and the burning of railroad tracks along the way. He also mentioned fighting with Confederates contesting the Union advance at Savannah, Ga.; Pocotaligo Station, S.C.; and Orangeburg, S.C. In March 1865, Heft described the death of a Confederate soldier executed in retaliation for the death by beating of a Union soldier. He noted seeing Confederate dead on the field after the Battle of Bentonville in North Carolina. Heft also recorded his march through Virginia and into Washington, D.C., for the Grand Review of the Union Armies on 24 May 1865. The diary concludes with Heft's return to Ohio and discharge from military service in June 1865. The volume also contains about twenty pages of accounting from 1870. There is an unbound partial handwritten transcription, probably by Heft, of this diary and another diary not included in this collection. |
Creator | Heft, Joseph, fl. 1864-1870. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Elizabeth Getz, November 2002
Encoded by: Elizabeth Getz, November 2002
Revisions: Nancy Kaiser, February 2005, December 2021
Funding from the Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc., supported the microfilming of this collection.
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Joseph Heft was from Coshocton County, Ohio. He was drafted for service in the Union Army on 21 September 1864. Heft joined the 78th Ohio Infantry Regiment in Atlanta, Ga., in early November and participated with the Army of the Tennessee in William T. Sherman's March to the Sea and March through the Carolinas during the fall of 1864 and the spring of 1865. He was mustered out of the Army in June 1865 and returned to Ohio. He was discharged from military service on 16 June 1865.
Back to TopThe collection contains the diary, 1864-1865, 1870, of Ohio Civil War soldier Joseph Heft, who served in the 78th Ohio Infantry Regiment in the Army of the Tennessee. The diary records the movements of the 78th Ohio on Sherman's March to the Sea and Sherman's March through the Carolinas. Heft detailed the miles marched, the conditions of the march, and the burning of railroad tracks along the way. He also mentioned fighting with Confederates contesting the Union advance at Savannah, Ga.; Pocotaligo Station, S.C.; and Orangeburg, S.C. In March 1865, Heft described the death of a Confederate soldier executed in retaliation for the death by beating of a Union soldier. He noted seeing Confederate dead on the field after the Battle of Bentonville in North Carolina. Heft also recorded his march through Virginia and into Washington, D.C., for the Grand Review of the Union Armies on 24 May 1865. The diary concludes with Heft's return to Ohio and discharge from military service in June 1865. The volume also contains about twenty pages of accounting from 1870. There is an unbound partial handwritten transcription, probably by Heft, of this diary and another diary not included in this collection.
Back to TopThe volume begins with entries for 7 April 1865-16 June 1865. Entries for September 1864-21 December 1864 follow the 1865 entries. The 1864 entries likely were transcribed from an earlier diary (not included in this collection) into this volume.
The unbound pages of diary entries are a partial handwritten transcription, probably by Heft, of the volume and another diary not included in this collection. The transcription includes entries for 28 November 1864-12 February 1865, 27 February 1865-31 March 1865, and 10 April 1865-14 April 1865.
Folder 1 |
Diary and handwritten transcription |
Folder 2 |
Typed transcription |
Reel M-5106/1 |
Microfilm |
Microfilm (M-5106/1)
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