Virginia Military Institute -- Class of 1863
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Robert A. Boyd Diary - Notebook
Collection
Identifier: MS-0092
Scope and Contents
One volume notebook, ca. 45 pages, containing miscellaneous personal notes (Dec. 1864-April 1865) and brief diary entries (January 1; April 3-13, 1865). Diary portion covers activities of the 1st Engineers Regiment during the last few days of the war; mentions surrender at Appomattox and includes pencil sketch of surrender site. Notes concern supplies, furloughs and desertions, guard rosters; also maxims and quotations from books.
