Highly detailed, often anquished, leather-bound duodecimo pocket diary kept by Private (eventually Corporal) William H. McAdams of Company B, 32nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, from 1 January 1864 to 24 July 1865. In all, 107 pages of diary entries and related notes, including some heart-stoppingly agonizing post-battle entries. McAdams records his company’s movements in the field, mentions the enemies they oppose, distances marched, etc. In memorable entries he records Lee’s surrender, Lincoln’s assassination (“April 17th hear the news of Abraham Lincolns death ... deep & inco(sonso)lable anguish prevails ...”), and participating in the Grand Review past the White House under President Johnson’s eye. When mustered out 20 July 1865 he has been ill for four days. By the 22nd he reaches Cincinnati and on the 24th he arrives home, the latter being his final entry. Among the few non-military entries he entered here during his service is a page devoted to 8 (memorized?) verses of OLIVER GOLDSMITH’S and another full page on which he recounted the story of “Lieut. Phillip Nolan” (the subject, of course, of E. E. Hale’s “Man Without A Country”). As FEELING a single combat diary as we have encountered in quite a while. Condition: very good.