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Preferred Citation

Preferred citation: [Identification of item], August Forsberg Memoir, WLU Coll. 0109, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.

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Biographical / Historical

Swedish immigrant and engineer August Forsberg rose to the rank of Colonel in the Confederate Army's 51st Virginia Infantry. In 1861 he served briefly on the staff of General John B. Floyd. As a member of the 51st Virginia he fought in both the western and eastern theatres from 1862 until his capture near Waynesboro, Virginia in March 1865. After the war he was a civil engineer in Lynchburg, Virginia. He married nurse Mary (Mollie)Morgan Otey whom he met in Lynchburg, Va. during the war while convalescing from a hand wound.

Scope and Contents

This collection is an American Civil War memoir, c.1870?, of August Forsberg, which includes accounts of Confederate fortifications, marches and battles, and his life in a Union prisoner of war camp in Fort Delaware.

Related Material

WLU Coll. 0454, Thomas J. Neel Correspondence

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia
• Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 51st
• Delaware -- Fort Delaware
• Fortification, Field
• Personal Narratives
• Personal narratives -- Confederate
• Prisoners of war