1862
1863
1865-66
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- 02/12/1862 - Battle of Fort Donelson, TN (263 K)
- 02/12/1862-02/14/1862 - Battle of Fort Donelson, TN (237 K)
- 02/15/1862 - Battle of Fort Donelson, TN (261 K)
- 02/15/1862 - Battle of Fort Donelson, TN (119 K)
- 02/15/1862 - Battle of Fort Donelson, TN (119 K)
- 02/15/1862 - Battle of Fort Donelson, TN (248 K)
- 02/16/1862-02/17/1862 - Surrender of Fort Donelson, TN (266 K)
- 02/17/1862 - Battle; Molineaux was almost shot (273 K)
- 02/21/1862 - Molineaux hears of surrender of Clarksville, TN (143 K)
- 02/22/1862 - Molineaux's 27th birthday (143 K)
- 04/06/1862 - Battle of Shiloh, TN (155K)
- 04/06/1862-04/08/1862 - Battle of Shiloh, TN (265 K)
- 05/22/1862-05/30/1862 - Siege & evacuation of Corinth, MS (264 K)
Civil War Diaries
- Portrait of G.D Molineaux
- G.D. Molineaux's Diary
1862
1863
1865-66 - G.D. Molineaux's gravesite
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- 05/01/1863 - Battle of Port Gibson, MS (376 K)
- 05/16/1863 - Battle of Champion's Hill, or Baker's Creek (196 K)
- 05/16/1863 - Battle of Champion's Hill, or Baker's Creek (173 K)
- 05/19/1863 - Skirmishing near Vicksburg, MS (404 K)
- 05/19/1863-05/22/1863 - Battle of Vicksburg, MS; troops advancing (405 K)
- 05/22/1863 - Battle of Vicksburg; charge against fort, heavy casualties (372 K)
- 05/22/1863-05/23/1863 - Battle of Vicksburg; fighting continues, Molineaux dismal (364 K)
- 05/23/1863-05/25/1863 - Battle of Vicksburg; in reserve, mentions battles of Raymond, Champion's Hill (337 K)
- 05/25/1863-05/27/1863 - Battle of
Vicksburg; Rebels raise flag of truce (420 K)
- 05/28/1863-05/31/1863 - Battle of Vicksburg; bombardment continues (373 K)
- An Augustana College professor, A. W. Williamson, who fought at Vicksburg included a memoir of the campaign in the November 1894 issue of the Augustana Journal.
- For another account of Vicksburg
see A. J. Withrow's letter to his wife in Iowa.
Courtesy of the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
The diary pages below were transcribed by Social Studies Students at Rock Island High School.
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transcriptions
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K)
5/1/1865 - 5/7/1865 - roster of casualties for some major
battles (173 K) 5/7/1865(cont.) - 5/11/1865
- saw photographer &
dentist, H. Huddle (175 K) 5/12/1865 - 5/14/1865 - city filled, ran errands (162
K) 5/15/1865 - 5/14/1965 - saw refugee, assasination of Kirby
Smith (171 K) 5/18/1865 - 5/22/1865 - warm weather, visited regiment
(174 K) 5/23/1865 - 5/26/1865 - "extortionate" market
prices, great explosion (176 K) 5/26/1865(cont.) - 5/28/1865 -
shells exploding,
went to "burnt district" (179 K) 5/29/1865 - 6/02/1865 -
taken sick, 3rd Div. to leave for
TX (164 K) 6/03/1865 - 6/08/1865 - hot weather, bad mosquitoes
(165 K) 6/09/1865 - 6/13/1865 - Molineaux sick, rode to see
doctor (159 K) 6/13/1865(cont.) - 6/19/1865 - entered hospital,
later sent back to work (160 K) 6/21/1865 - 7/02/1865 - heavy
storm, muster day (165 K) 7/03/1865 - 7/15/1865 - still sick, wrote letters (165
K) 7/18/1865 - 8/19/1865 - received letters, wrote (149 K) 8/20/1865 - 9/14/1865 - sick incoming,
grandmother dies (153 K) 9/17/1865 - 10/04/1865 - sick again, much rain (157 K) 10/6/1865 - 10/19/1865 - office empty, flogged
man in hospital (167 K) 10/19/1865(cont.) - 12/01/1865
- eclipse of sun, attended
theater (162 K) 12/05/1865 - 1/22/1866 - 1st cold day, service mustered
(162 K) 1/29/1866 - 3/02/1866 - attended theater, accounts (159
K) Clothing allowance - (174 K) Hair oil & hair tonic recipes -
(158 K)