Sidney Morris Davis memoirs, 1871.
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 1 itemSubject(s): - United States. Army -- Military life
- United States. Army. Cavalry, 6th
- Belle Isle (Prison)
- Prisoners of war -- Virginia -- Richmond
- Maryland -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns
- Pennsylvania -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns
- Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons
- Soldiers
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Holograph manuscript by Davis recounting his Civil War service as a Union cavalryman in Company F of the Sixth Cavalry from 1861 to 1864. Topics include camp life; military engagements in Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania; and Davis's incarceration in the Confederate prison on Belle Isle in the James River at Richmond, Va.
Union cavalryman.
Collection material in English.
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