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[Identification of item], in the Isaac O. Shelby Diaries and Photographs #5674-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from James Allen Hill in December 2015 (Acc. 102503).

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• Atlanta Campaign, 1864.
• Bennett Place State Historic Site (N.C.)
• Bentonville, Battle of, Bentonville, N.C., 1865.
• Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
• Shelby, Isaac O.
• Soldiers--United States--Diaries.
• Soldiers--United States--Photograph.
• South Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Campaigns.
• United States. Army--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs.
• United States. Army. Iowa Infantry Regiment, 25th (1862-1865)--Photographs.
• Vicksburg (Miss.)--History--Siege, 1863.

Isaac O. Shelby was born around 1841 and lived in Mount Pleasant, Ind. On 21 August 1862, when he was twenty-one years old, he enlisted in the United States Army and served in the 25th Iowa Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. Shelby died in Ft. Concho, Tex., on 9 August 1883. He is buried in Aspen Grove Cemetery in Des Moines County, Iowa.

Two diaries and three cartes des visites photographs of Union soldier Isaac O. Shelby. The first diary covers 1 December 1862 to 26 November 1863; the second diary covers 1864 to April 1865. He wrote about his regiment's involvement in the siege of Vicksburg; the Battle of Chattanooga; the siege of Atlanta; the Battle of Bentonville, and the surrender at Bennett Place.