CIVIL WAR FIELD DIARIES kept by George Sabine
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of Maine, 3 vols. Three highly detailed leather-bound duodecimo pocket notebooks kept during the Civil War by GEORGE W. SABINE (1832-1865) of Eastport, Maine, while commanding Company K, 18th Regt. Maine Volunteers, and subsequently while serving in Maine’s 1st Heavy Artillery Regt. ALTOGETHER TOTALING approx. 282 pp. of diary entries, military engagement sketch-diagrams, related drawings, dollar accounts, etc., plus blanks. Sabine fully names many of his fellow combatants. TOGETHER WITH his pocket diary for 1860 (recording his regional travels, election results, birth of his only child, wife’s health, named steamship departures and arrivals, weekly sermon topics preached by named ministers, etc.), his inscribed leather wallet, two daguerreotypes, the circa 1860 browned muslin ditty bag (inscribed in ink with Sabine’s name and town) in which these notebooks have descended, and one LEONARD HALL’s highly detailed 48-page 1848-1851 pocket notebook of grocery purchases from JOHN CHAMPNEY.
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CIVIL WAR FIELD DIARIES kept by George Sabine
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