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Charles M. Barnett's Civil War journal documents important events in southeastern Tennessee between August and October, 1863, including the Tullahoma Campaign, the retreat from Chickamauga, and parts of the Chattanooga Campaign.

Charles M. Barnett's journal is contained in a single volume, beginning May 1, 1863. The entries for 1864 are written in the front part of the same volume, with corrections as to day and date noted occasionally. The journal contains particularly useful information on the signal events in southeastern Tennessee between August and October, 1863, including the Tullahoma Campaign, the retreat from Chickamauga, and parts of the Chattanooga Campaign, including the opening of the Cracker Line and the Wauhatchie Night Attack.

Corydon Fuller's journals document the travels of a young bookseller (from the Northern Midwest) in Arkansas, bordering areas in Louisiana, and in Mississippi in the years preceding the Civil War.

Corydon Fuller's intriguing journals (marked "Vol. 6th" and "Vol. 7") follow the path of the young itinerant bookseller in a fascinating series of situations and places. A college graduate, Fuller wrote both well and copiously, recording the events and his impressions with impressive clarity and depth.

As a man prone to some reflection on the political and social issues of his day, Fuller's journals are a valuable resource for study of the hardening sectional lines in the Trans-Mississippi South. By 1857, Fuller believed that an impasse had been reached, reflected both in his reporting of adamant Southern views on slavery and states' rights, and in his own hot-tempered opinions on moral right versus wrong.

This pre-printed annual pocket diary was kept by Fred W. Grant, a Lyme, New Hampshire, farmer, teamster, telephone worker, and all-around handyman, in 1905.

The diarist kept short nearly daily notes on his work, such as lumbering and hauling/transportation, drawing ice, tapping maple trees, building an arch atop a hill for boiling sap, boiling sap, washing and oiling harnesses, grubbing manure, turning hay, picking stone, drawing gravel, fixing bridges, laying a barn cellar, shingling, turning out livestock (sheep and cows), planting, threshing, harvesting, mowing oats, hoeing potatoes, digging potatoes, husking corn, and filling a silo. He noted in many cases that he helped others with farmwork--often the Lamberts. Some days he wrote only "loafed" or "tinkered." On several occasions he "Carried Mildred to school" (June 12, December 11, and December 18).

Fred Grant attended "telephone meetings," staked out lines, hung wire, straightened lines, installed telephones in homes and businesses, and wired switches. Some entries give details about equipment and hardware. On April 22, he obtained batteries from Couch & Seely, and on September 12, when he put in a phone for Ben Every, he itemized a bill for wire, a knob, in wire, arrestor, and labor. The same day he fixed a phone for F. Rich--it had "brocken wire in arm." Although the diary is not clear, he appears to have worked for or interacted with the N.E. Telephone Company and the L.P. Telephone Company.

Grant attended church regularly, donated to the Sunday School and educational society, and paid subscription costs for a minister, although the area apparently struggled to secure and maintain one. Rev. Small left and was replaced by someone from Seminary; a string of others followed, including a Mr. Pierceson of the Tract Society. He marked February 5th with "Christ Crucified."

On November 14, the Fred W. Grant made preparations for his wedding and the next day "Attended my own wedding." Newlyweds Fred and Viola Grant stayed the night at the Fiske House in Whitefield, and then honeymooned by cars and stage to Rumford (visiting the falls and paper mill), Manchester and Derry, and then back home. He indicated various transportation and purchase expenditures.

Throughout the volume are records of expenditures, such as a $5 loan to his father (which was later repaid), a dress for Mildred, wheel work by Lamphier, the cleaning of a bicycle lamp by Claflin, shoes, a ring, ice cream, candy, haircuts, and dental care. On October 19, he wrote "Chased cows on Lyme hill got all but one which was wild." That month he purchased a Jersey cow; just before Christmas he butchered the cow, set up a Christmas tree, and made purchases of presents.

The journal of Levi E. Kent, of the 4th Rhode Island Infantry, Company F., provides an account of his regiment's movements, battles, pastimes, entertainments, and lifestyle.

Although Kent served for only one year during the Civil War, he left an outstanding account of his regiment's movements, battles, pastimes, entertainments, and lifestyle. A good writer and capable of holding forth for several pages on a single engry, Kent's journal virtually amounts to a regimental history. Of special interest is his reporting on the palace intrigue among the officers of the 4th Rhode Island.

This journal transcript details Thomas J. Barclay's service in the Mexican American War.

Thomas Barclay's Mexican War journal covers the entire period of his service in the 2nd Pennsylvania Infantry. This journal gives an intimate, common soldiers' view of the Mexican War, opinions of his superior officers, camp life, the Mexican citizenry (referred to as "greasers"), and the Mexican landscape.

The original manuscript of the journal has been lost, and it is known to exist only in the form of a typescript, prepared some time early in the twentieth century.

Presbyterian clergyman, longtime pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1934-1951; correspondence, copies of essays and book reviews written for religious periodicals, sermons and addresses, mimeographed study notes of talks given in Detroit before the Men's Club for the Study of Religion, religious and literary notebooks, and travel journals.

The series in the collection are: Biographical; Correspondence; Writings; Speeches, sermons, lectures; Miscellaneous notes; Scriptures; Literary Studies; and Scrapbooks, journals, etc.