“PIOUS REFLECTIONS” BOOK IDENTIFIED TO 56TH NORTH CAROLINA SOLDIER

“PIOUS REFLECTIONS” BOOK IDENTIFIED TO 56TH NORTH CAROLINA SOLDIER

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This small “pocket” book is titled “Pious Reflections, for Every Day in the Month.” Translated from the French of Fenelon, Archbishop pf Cambray. Published by James Loring, CXXXII (132) Washington Street, Boston.

This measures 2.25” x 3”. Leather covered, unpaginated. Condition is well worn and weather beaten; but for good reason, as it likely traveled with him through Ft. Delaware and Johnson’s Island! Front cover backing board is missing and there is some silverfish loss on title page and inside front cover sheet. Some water stains on text pages.

Written in period brown ink in the front of this booklet is, “D.M. McDonald / Camp Clingman / Near Goldsboro, N.C. / Saturday 1st Nov. 1862” and on one of the last back pages, similarly is “D.M. McDonald / Camp Clingman / Goldsboro / 1st Nov 1862.” On the front page, parts of the original ink inscription faded where it got wet and someone has gone over it with another pen. Luckily the original inscription in the back of the book is fine and untouched. There are additional pencil notations on the last blank page and inside back cover. These are difficult to read but could possibly be deciphered with time and patience. They start with “Sunday morning April 6th 1862. Expect to go over the … ponder stuff for the first time … how the thought of it makes….” Very thought provoking.

Daniel M. McDonald (1839 – 1891) was a clerk from Bladen County, N.C. and was 24-years-old. He enlisted on 4/17/1861 as a Corporal in Company “F”, (the LaFayette Light Infantry) of the 1st North Carolina Infantry, a nine-month regiment. With them he participated in the Battle of Big Bethel, also known as the Battle of Bethel Church, was one of the earliest, if not the first, land battle of the Civil War, on June 10, 1861. Daniel Mustered Out with the regiment on 11/12/1861. Five months later he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant into Company “B” of the 56th North Carolina Infantry. He was captured on 5/22/1863 at Gum Swamp, NC (near Kinston). As a POW he was first transported to Fort Monroe, then to Fort Delaware on 6/13/1863, then to Johnson’s Island, OH on 7/20/1863. He was paroled on 2/24/1865 and sent to City Point for exchange. Due to his condition, he was hospitalized on 3/8/1865 upon his return to Richmond. When Richmond fell a month later, he again became a prisoner while still in the hospital. Daniel took the Oath of Allegiance on 5/28/1865. He died at the age of 52 and is buried in Cross Creek Cemetery #2, in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

From the Texas Civil War Museum collection.  [jet] [ph:L]

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