DIARY AND SONGSTER ID’D TO JEFFERSON KINDER, 19th & 20TH INDIANA INFANTRY – TAKEN PRISONER AT GETTYSBURG

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This leather-bound journal is inscribed on the inside page with the owner’s name, “SERGT. JEFF KINDER, CO. C. 20TH IND V.I. 1ST BRIGADE 3RD DIVIS. 2ND ARMY CORPS”. The decorative title page reads, “DIARY FOR 1865, NEW YORK”. This is followed by an 1865 calendar page, a postal rate guide, and a monthly guide to the phases of the moon. The dated journal pages begin after this and the entries that Kinder made begin on January1. He writes, “we had ….plenty of whiskey all day....and we had several fights in camp”. Journal continues sporadically until March 6. Each day he writes of the weather, drilling, inspections, target shooting, and more drinking! There are examples of the boredom of camp living, such as this entry which reads, “Cloudy and rained all day and it was a miserable day and there was nothing going on in camp to day, no drill or an in spection or any dress parade or any thing as it got to sleet at nite and was a bad nite”. Kinder inscribed his name several times throughout the diary.

Diary measures 4” x 2 ½”. Leather cover is very distressed and edges are very worn. Front cover is split vertically all the way through, but interior cover and binging are tight with no loose pages. Paper has yellowed with age, but writing is very clear and legible. Edges of pages are gold gilt, which still retains its original brightness.

Leather bound Christian Songster was published in 1858. Text contains 283 pages of poems and songs. There are several different names inscribed from various owners. Back cover is completely split from spine and last few pages are loose. Front cover is barely attached. Pages have yellowed with age but none are missing. Songster measures 4 ½” x 3”.

Jefferson Kinder was a resident of Wayne County, Indiana. On July 29, 1861 he enlisted as a Private in Co. “B”, 19th Indiana Infantry, which was the famed “Iron Brigade”. Kinder received a promotion to Sergeant. On August 28, 1862 he was wounded at the Battle of Brawner Farm, and was later captured at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863. He was soon released and rejoined the regiment. He re-enlisted on January 1, 1864 and was transferred into Co. “C”, 20th Indiana Infantry. He was mustered out on July 12, 1865 at Louisville. Kentucky.

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