Guide to the A. L. Marks Civil War Diary
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Title: A. L. Marks Civil War Diary
Date (inclusive): ca. 1861-1864
Collection number: Wyles SC 306
Creator: Marks, A.L.
Extent: .1 linear feet (1 folder)
Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Language of Material: Collection materials in English
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A. L. Marks Civil War Diary. Wyles SC 306. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Purchase, 1983.
Scope and Content of Collection
Civil War diary, 1861-1864, of A. L. Marks from Chicago, who enlisted as a very young man in the 13th Illinois Vol. Infantry,
at Dixon, Illinois. The diary describes the movements and engagements of the 13th Illinois, from its organization on May
9, 1861, until April 8, 1864. A clipping, laid in the diary, talks about the diary and Marks role in the Civil War. According
to an undated note also laid in the diary, Marks was held at Cahaba Prison for ten months, during the Civil War. Cahaba Prison,
near Selma, Alabama, had been a cotton warehouse and it held over 5,000 Union soldiers between 1863 and 1865.
Box
Diary