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 159 years old. As a reminder, John’s diary is part of his pension packet, located at the National Archives, Washington, DC.

Sources

^{1 Diary of Jacob B. Creps, “Jacob B. Creps, Civil War Pension File Mother Application #332696″, Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs (RG 15), National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Washington, DC.}