TY  - GEN
AU  - Whitten,John
TI  - John Whitten papers,
KW  - Sperry family.
KW  - Sperry family
KW  - Whitten family.
KW  - Whitten family
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Iowa Infantry Regiment, 5th (1861-1864)
KW  - Andersonville Prison
KW  - Belle Isle (Prison)
KW  - Corinth, Battle of, Corinth, Miss., 1862
KW  - Jackson, Battle of, Jackson, Miss., 1863 (May 13)
KW  - Prisoners of war
KW  - Georgia
KW  - Andersonville
KW  - South Carolina
KW  - Columbia
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Richmond
KW  - Mississippi
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Campaigns
KW  - Prisoners and prisons
KW  - Vicksburg (Miss.)
KW  - Siege, 1863
KW  - Soldiers
KW  - itoamc
N1  - Open to research; Electronic files of the Whitten and allied Sperry families genealogical material and photographs and John Whitten obituary also available through Library of Congress Manuscript Division; Electronic files of originals in private hands; [S.l.]
N2  - Diary (110 pages; 1863 August 4-1865 May 17) kept by Whitten during his Civil War service with the 5th Iowa Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army.  Subjects include the battles of Corinth and Jackson, Miss., the siege of Vicksburg, Miss., and Whitten's experience as prisoner of war in Belle Isle prison, Richmond, Va., in Columbia, S.C., and in Andersonville Prison, Andersonville, Ga.  Also includes genealogical material and photographs, 1857-2010, of the Whitten and allied Sperry families as well as an obituary of John Whitten
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