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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Wimer Bedford papers, 1861-1865</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Bedford, Wimer</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1835-1905</namePart>
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  <abstract>Diaries (3 volumes; 1864 Jan. 9-1865 July 9) including descriptions of the siege of Vicksburg, Miss., and Sherman's march to the sea. An essay, copied by Cornelia E. Bedford with a foreword by her, is entitled "Real Life in the Civil War" and relates to incidents in Bedford's career (1861-1865).</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Captain and assistant adjutant general of volunteers, U.S.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bedford, Cornelia E</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Sherman's March to the Sea</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Mississippi</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Civil War, 1861-1865</temporal>
    <topic>Campaigns</topic>
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    <geographic>Vicksburg (Miss.)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Siege, 1863</temporal>
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    <occupation>Army officers</occupation>
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