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Description
51-page journal of Leander Guy Woollard (1834-1874) of the 9th Mississippi Infantry, and later the 42nd Mississippi Regiment, who served in Florida, eastern Tennessee, and then in Virginia. The journal covers the period of March 23, 1861, to March 1, 1863. A transcript is included.
Woollard was a lawyer who joined the "Senatobia Invincibles" in February 1861 that became Company I of the 9th Mississippi Infantry until the men's service ended in 1862. Upon reenlisting, Woollard became a first lieutenant, and then captain of Company B of the 42nd Mississippi Regiment. At the Battle of Gettysburg, he was captured with about 30 of his men and imprisoned on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie. On March 21, 1865, he was sent to Point Lookout, Maryland. After parole in April, he returned to Mississippi and became probate clerk of DeSoto County. Woollard's health never recovered from his imprisonment, and he died in 1874.
Identifier
sc.0037.001_001.001
Date
1861-1863
Keywords
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Recommended Citation
"L. Guy Woollard journal, 1861-1863" (2021). Documents. 1.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-lgwoollard1/1
