0.01 Linear Feet, Summary: 1/4 in. (1 item in 1 folder)
Creator
Barns, Uz
Location
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown,
WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
Language
English
Abstract
Diary of Uz Barns of Ritchie County, a volunteer in the Union Army who served as a private in the 10th West Virginia Infantry.
The diary covers the years 1862 through 1865 and contains daily entries, mainly regarding weather conditions. Barns also wrote
about marches and distances marched per day; encampments at various places in eastern West Virginia and in Winchester, Virginia;
and engagements with Confederate forces at Beverly, (West) Virginia, Harpers Ferry, (West) Virginia, and Deep Bottom, Henrico
County, Virginia. He also records number of prisoners taken. Barns was in Richmond at the time of Lee's surrender and mentions
the number of cannon and the supply of shells and powder left there by the Confederates.
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Conditions Governing Access
No special access restriction applies.
Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Uz Barns, Soldier, Civil War Diary, A&M 0974, West Virginia and Regional
History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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