- Collection:
- America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia
- Title:
- Cornelius C. Platter Civil War diary 1864-1865
- Creator:
- Platter, Cornelius C.
- Publisher:
- Cornelius C. Platter Civil War diary, ms 967. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.
- Date of Original:
- 1864/1865
- Subject:
- Sherman's March through the Carolinas
Sherman's March to the Sea
Soldiers--Ohio--Diaries - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- diaries
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
image/x-djvu - Description:
- The collection consists of a Civil War diary of Lt. (later Capt.) Cornelius C. Platter from November, 1864 - April 27, 1865. Platter's diary details Sherman's march through Georgia from Rome to Savannah and the march north through the Carolinas. He gives dates, times, and lengths of marches; describes the weather, locale, scenery, and food as well as orders, rumors, positions, troop moral, and administrative duties. The diary includes a description of the burning of Columbia, South Carolina, the news of the Confederate surrender, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
This diary has been digitized. Images and the transcript are availble online through the Digital Library of Georgia.
Cataloged as part of the Georgia Archives and Manuscripts Automated Access Project: A Special Collections Gateway Program of the University Center in Georgia.
Also available on microfilm reel 967-1. A transcription and scanned images are available online as the Digital Library of Georgia's project, the Cornelius C. Platter Civil War diary, 1864-1865 (http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/hargrett/platter/).
Cornelius C. Platter, Lt. and Adjutant with the 81st Ohio Infantry Regiment during the Civil War.
America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia received support from a Digitizing Historical Records grant awarded to the Atlanta History Center, Georgia Historical Society, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Digital Library of Georgia by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_turningpoint_harg0967-001-001
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/harg/turningpoint/do:harg0967-001-001
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Cornelius C. Platter Civil War diary, ms 967. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries., as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
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