Text / Craver, Thomas Henry. Pocket diary. 1864, Jan. 1--April 26th

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Title: Craver, Thomas Henry. Pocket diary. 1864, Jan. 1--April 26th
Creator: Craver, Thomas Henry, author
Date Created and/or Issued: 1864-04
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: United States Civil War
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Pocket diary in pencil and pen. Describes the brief period of four months while Thomas was in the 4th Iowa Cavalry Regiment, Company E, prior to his falling ill and dying in May of 1864. Includes his comments on falling sick and fighting the "flux."
Last half of the diary is blank. Thomas Craver was 19 when he died on May 17, 1864 of typhoid fever. See Roster, p. 96.
Roster of the Fourth Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, 1861-1865 : an appendix to "The story of a cavalry regiment" / by Wm. Forse Scott
Type: text
Extent: 57 p. ; 14.5 cm
Identifier: mssHM 76855
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll6/id/5703
Language: English
Subject: Soldiers--Iowa--Diaries
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Union
United States. Army. Iowa Cavalry Regiment, 4th (1861-1865)
Diaries United States Civil War, 1861-1865. (aat)
Source: Craver Civil War Diaries
United States Civil War, Huntington Digital Library

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