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Author Surname Beginning with “C” Collection created by Dr. George C. Rable Documents Added as of September 2021 Cabell, Jeanntte et al. “Dead Horses in Sheridan’s Ashes.” Civil War Times 45 (April 2006): electronic, no pagination. William Daniel Cabell, Captain, New Market Home Guard Barn burning Help for soldier families Impressment Fasting, humiliation, and prayer Money to buy grain for soldier families Campbell, Eric A. “We Have Here a Great Fight.” Civil War Times 48 (August 2009): Electronic, no pagination. Augustus Hesse, 9th Massachusetts Battery Gettysburg Wounded, hospital Campbell, Robert. “A Lone Star in Virginia.” Civil War Times Illustrated 39 (December 2000): electronic, no pagination. 5th Texas Infantry, Co. A Seven Days Mechanicsville Gaines’s Mill Malvern Hill McClellan Cansdell, Henry W. “Journal of Dr. Henry W. Cansdell.” Vineland Historical Magazine 7 (1922): 55-60; 8 (1923): 72-76, 92-97, 111-14, 135-38. 3rd Wisconsin battery, 22nd Wisconsin Infantry Notes hospital visits, 57ff St. Louis, 60 Bill infantry and cavalry regiments, 73 Shiloh wounded, 74 Drowning of Governor Harvey, 75 Household finances, 93 Corinth, artillery fire, 93-97 Florence, Alabama, 113 Alcohol, 114 2 Carpenter, Caroline. “Earlham Diaries: The Diary of Caroline Carpenter.” Bulletin of the Friends Historical Association 36 (Autumn 1947): 76-77. Quaker, Earlham College God chastising nation for wickedness, 76 John Hunt Morgan, 76 Home Guards, 76 Cary, Clarence Fairfax. “The Journal of Midshipman Cary.” Civil War History 9 (June 1963): 187-202. Commerce raider Chickamauga Steamer Tallahassee, passim Blockade runners, 188 Coal, 189 Men paid, fights on shore, 190 Fort Fisher, Wilmington, 192-202 Yellow fever, 193 Captured cargoes, 195-96 Bermuda, 197 Christmas, 201 Castel, Albert. “I Feel Out of Place.” Civil War Times 45 (November 2006): electronic, no pagination. John Davis Vail, minister, 47th Ohio Marching Atlanta campaign Sherman’s March Often ill Diarrhea 3 Cate, John March. “The Midnight Cracker Line Attack.” Civil War Times Illustrated 36 (June 1997): electronic, no pagination. 33rd Massachusetts Infantry, Co. D Night attack on the cracker line Harding fight October 1863 Chancellor, Sue M. “Personal Recollections of the Battle of Chancellorsville.” Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 66 (April 1968): 137-46. Place and the house, 137 Women and Confederate pickets, 138 Women and northern soldiers, hiding food, 138-39 Rumors, 139-40 Meeting of General Anderson, Posey, Stuart at their house, 140 House made into Hooker’s headquarters—family had to sleep on pallets in a back room, 140-41 Battle of Chancellorsville, 141 Alcohol, 141 Wounded men, legs and arms, 142 Left the house and got to the river, General Dickinson, released by Yankees, 142-44 Hooker, 146 Chittenden, William F. and Mary Jane Chittenden. “Oh, William, How I Wish You Were at Home.” Civil War Times Illustrated 40 (May 2001): electronic, no pagination. 154th New York Infantry, Co. D Troubles on departing She wants him home Wartime destruction Fears he will not return Boys had diphtheria Discharge, disability Claiborne, Willis. “Letters & Diaries,” Civil War Times Illustrated 1 (August 1963): 20-21. Mississippi major Missionary Ridge, Cleburne, 20 Atlanta campaign, Dalton, 20-21 Joseph Johnston, 21 4 Clark, William Henry. “I Never Saw My Beans or Tent Again.” Civil War Times 41 (February 2003): electronic, no pagination. 92nd New York Infantry Peninsula campaign Fair Oaks, Seven Pines Earthworks Wounded Libby Prison Cochu, Henry. “The Demise of the D’Epineuil Zouaves.” Edited by Ralph Whitehead. Civil War Times Illustrated 36 (October 1997): electronic, no pagination. 53rd New York Infantry. Co. G, Lieutenant Trouble with colonel, arrest of officers Burnside expedition Arrested, confined among enlisted men, stench Punishments Gambling Filing charges against the colonel Food Alcohol Cole, Charles Parley. “An Editor’s Errand.” Civil War Times Illustrated 38 (December 1999): electronic, no pagination. Editor, Gazette and Banner, Courtland, New York Quest for body of man in 76th New York Infantry killed at Gettysburg Pass General Schenck Horse Hospitals Grave, cemetery Confederate prisoners Horrors of the battlefield Foraging and ransacking Selfish people around Gettysburg Maryland people more hospitable Cole, Webster K. “A Michigander Gets His War Story.” Civil War Times 42 (December 2003): electronic, no pagination. 5 26th Michigan Infantry, Co. E Overland campaign Wilderness Woods on fire, burial of dead North Anna River Spotsylvania Courthouse Petersburg, Fort Gregg Killing a woman’s cow Sailor’s Creek Appomattox Grand Review, pressure to muster out troops “A College Magazine of 1861.” Indiana Magazine of History 26 (November 1930): 307-9. Wabash Monthly, January 1861 Thanksgiving, church, 308-9 Cook, Susan. “Diary of Susan Cook.” Phillips County Historical Quarterly 4 (December 1966): 29-42. Phillips County, Arkansas New Year’s 29 Child’s death, 30 Rumors, 30 Confederate deserter, marriage, 30 Suspected Federal spy, 31 Two men shot, cotton, General Buford, 33 Conscription officer, 34 Brother died of his wound, 34 Federal scouting party, 35 Knoxville, Longstreet, 36 Federal scouting party, 37 Election in Helena, Arkansas, 39 Federal raids in town, 41 [Corbin, Henry.] “Diary of a Virginia Cavalry Man, 1863-4.” Historical Magazine 3d ser. 2 (October 1873): 210-15. 18th Virginia Cavalry, Co. B Western Virginia, 210 Capturing wagons and prisoners, 211 Marching distances, 211 et passim Bunker Hill, Winchester, 215 6 Cowell, Charles. “An Infantryman at Corinth: The Diary of Charles Cowell.” Civil War Times Illustrated 13 (November 1974): 10-14. 9th Illinois Infantry, Co. I October 1862, fighting a Corinth 10 General Thomas Alfred Davies, 11-12 Fort Robbinette, 11 Alcohol, whiskey, 11-12 Ambulances, wounded, 12-13 Cox, Abner. “South from Appomattox: The Diary of Abner R. Cox.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 75 (October 1974): 238-44. Palmetto Sharpshooters, Co. L, Lieutenant Appomattox, parole, 240-41 Marching home, 241ff Food, foraging by Confederates, 241 Johnston surrender, 242 Lincoln assassination, 242 Food, 243 Crawford, James. “Early’s Command is Done Gone.” Civil War Times 44 (June 2005): electronic, no pagination. 43rd New York, Co. E Overland campaign, Wilderness Casualties Arrest of soldier Cedar Creek Washington AWOL soldiers Appomattox Curry, Mary Eliza. “’What An Awful and Grand Spectacle It Is’: Fear in the Heart of North Carolina.” Civil War Times Illustrated 22 (January 1984): 41-43. Salisbury, North Carolina, George Stoneman Traveling box cars, longs for Knoxville, 41 Arrival of Federals, 42 7 Commissary stores broken into, poor and blacks taking supplies, 42 Asks for a guard from General Stoneman, 42 Surrender of Lee, 43 Documents Added as of August 2021 Calef, John H. “Gettysburg Notes: The Opening Gun.” Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States 45 (1909): 40-58. 2nd United States Artillery March to Gettysburg, 40ff Artillery, horse battery, 42-46 July 1, 46ff School children singing northern songs, 46-47 Buford, 47-53 Battlefield scenes, 50 Horses, 51 Monument, Buford, 54-57 Calef, John H. “The Regular Artillery in the Gettysburg Campaign.” Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States 45 (1909): 32-38, 2nd United States Artillery Horse artillery, 32-35 July 2, action of the batteries, 35-38 Clark, Walter. “The Battle of Sharpsburg, Personal Incidents.” Wake Forest Student 17 (1897): 83-97. 35th North Carolina Infantry Antietam campaign, 83ff Details on his brigade and division, 86ff Civilians fleeing Sharpsburg, 87 Went into line at Dunker church, 88 Tried to ride a horse into battle, 89-90 Surrender Massachusetts officer Francis Winthrop Palfrey, 90 Stonewall Jackson and John Bell Hood, 91 Lee and McClellan, 93-95 Clark, Gibson. “Reminiscences of Civil War Days.” Annals of Wyoming 15 (1943): 377-86. Virginia, Parker’s Battery Gettysburg, 377-78 8 Chattanooga, Lookout Mountain, 378 Knoxville, 378 Food, 379 Overland campaign, Spotsylvania, 379-80 North Anna River, 380 Petersburg, 381 Religious revivals, patriotism, piety, 381-82 Petersburg breakthrough, 382- He was a ragged soldier, 382 Retreat to Appomattox, 383ff Cooking, food, 383-84 Lee surrender, 384-86 Clarke, John T. “The Diary of a Civil War Soldier, With Sherman in Georgia.” Bulletin, Missouri Historical Society 8 (1952): 356-70. 31st Missouri Infantry (Union) Tobacco, 356 Alcohol, 357 Guerrillas, 357 Atlanta campaign, 357ff Confederate woman’s letter, wants Yankee skull and jawbone as souvenir, 358 New Hope Church, Dallas, 358 Firing and skirmishing, 360-61 Nickajack Creek, 362-63 Deaths, lightning, 363 Battle of Atlanta, 364 Kilpatrick, 366-67 Casualties, 368-70 Clingman, Thomas L. “Clingman’s Brigade at Cold Harbor.” Our Living and Our Dead 2 (1875): 291-92 Letter to a Richmond Newspaper, June 5, 1864 Denies that his brigade “gave way for a time” 291 Brigade on left did give way, 291 Brigade under constant fire and formed a new line of battle, 291-92 Praises brigade, casualties, 292 Coffin, William P. “Chapel Hill at the Close of the Civil War.” North Carolina University Magazine 18 (1900-1901): 272-75. 2nd Tennessee Cavalry (Confederate) 9 With Wheeler’s cavalry, 272ff Effort to protect university property, 272ff Cole, J. R. “Sketches of the 22d Regiment of North Carolina State Troops. First Two Years of the War.” Our Living and Our Dead 1 (1874-75): 305-13. 22nd North Carolina Infantry A. P. Hill, Burnside, McClellan, 305 Battle of Fredericksburg,
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