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Language
English
Abstract
Diary and account book, 1804-1811, of John Thompson containing accounts of items bought and sold, money owed by and to Thompson,
two journeys on the Mississippi River between Nashville, Natchez, and New Orleans, 1804-1805, and numerous remedies for diseases
and medical complaints. There is a second diary by Robert C. Thompson, a Confederate soldier, from August 1862 to February
1863. Robert Thompson was a member of a Tennessee unit, imprisoned at Camp Morton, exchanged in September 1862, and spent
the remainder of the time covered by the diary with his reorganized company in Mississippi near Vicksburg. Places mentioned
include Camp Morton near Indianapolis, Indiana; Richmond, Virginia; Gallatin and Memphis, Tennessee; Cairo, Illinois; Columbus
and Hickman, Kentucky; Vicksburg, Clinton, Jackson, Corinth, Holly Spring, Tippa Ford, and Oxford, Mississippi.
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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], John and Robert Thompson Diaries, A&M 1881, West Virginia and Regional
History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.