Lincoln Museum Receives Civil War Memoir

Posted by admin on Jun 3, 2010

The Civil War memoirs of a Union soldier who spent time in Confederate prison camps in Georgia and South Carolina has been donated to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield.

The museum says that the memoir of Silas Edwin Halsey was donated by C. Judson Treat of Johns Island, S.C., and spans the soldier’s experience in the Civil War from 1862 to 1865. He wrote the memoir in 1886 before his death in 1908.

Museum officials say the memoir has two parts and both parts are written in pencil. It joins the museum’s collection of more than 100 Civil War diaries.

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