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Why Is John’s Diary in his Pension Packet?
During my June visit to the National Archives (Washington, DC), I pulled the Civil War pension packet for John B. Creps. The find of this trip was cousin John’s diary, kept by him during his Civil War service and found in his pension packet1. See this article Introducing John B Creps, and this article to read the entire (its short) diary. John wrote in his diary daily sharing gossip and news of friends, conveying the mundane drudgery of a soldier waiting to be deployed. Some entries are long, while he has just a brief sentence or two on other days. But the question remains, why or how did his diary…
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John B Creps Diary
During my June visit to the National Archives (Washington, DC), I pulled the Civil War pension packet for John B. Creps. The find of this trip was cousin John’s diary, kept by him during his Civil War service and found in his pension packet1. See this article Introducing John B Creps. Below is each page in the diary of John B Creps of Company H, 67th Regiment of Ohio Infantry which he kept during the Civil War. I thought about creating a transcript of each of the pages, but feel the visual of each page speaks louder. The writing, for the most part, is extremely legible, given the diary is…
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Introducing John B Creps
During my June visit to the National Archives (Washington, DC), I pulled the Civil War pension packet for John B. Creps. The find of this trip was cousin John’s diary, kept by him during his Civil War service and found in his pension packet. John served in Company H, 67th Regiment of Ohio Infantry during the Civil War (Union). He was born in Wood County (Oh) and enlisted at 19 years of age on 16 Dec 1863 in Toledo for a term of 3 years. He had brown hair, gray eyes, a fair complexion, and was 5 feet 4.5 inches tall. Upon his enlistment, John was eligible for a $300…
