Guide to the Charles Ellis Diary MSS.2819
Ellis, Charles
- Author:
Finding aid prepared by James N. Gilbreath
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
August 2010
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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Charles Ellis Diary
- Unit ID:
MSS.2819
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet
- Dates:
1865
- Abstract:
Diary written by First Sergeant Charles Ellis of the 96th Illinois Volunteer Infantry. The diary contains daily notes concerning regimental duty in Huntsville, Alabama in 1865.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Charles Ellis Diary, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains one leather-bound "Daily Pocket Diary for the Year 1865." The diary was kept by First Sergeant Charles Ellis. Writings in the diary concern company roll call, items sent from home, and movements of the regiment. Noted in the diary is the assassination of President Lincoln.
Biographical/Historical note
As recorded in History of the Ninety-Sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, by Charles A. Partridge, 1887, Charles Ellis was born in Mancester, England around 1846. Ellis was a cabinet maker and enlisted in Waukegan, Illinois. He was promoted to Corporal in March, 1863; to Sergeant on September 21, 1863; and to First Sergeant on May 27, 1865. He participated in every engagement of the regiment except Rocy Face Ridge, and he was "slightly wounded" in the leg at Chickamauga. As of 1887, he was a janitor at 116 E. Monroe Street, Chicago.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Purchased from Charles Apfelbaum, 2009
- Processing Information:
Processed by
James N. Gilbreath, August, 2010
Source(s)
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 (lcsh)
Diary Box SC0042 Folder 2819.1