A. L. Marks Civil War Diary

Processed by Preliminary arrangement and description by D. Tambo

Department of Special Collections

Davidson Library

University of California, Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Phone: (805) 893-3062

Fax: (805) 893-5749

Email: special@library.ucsb.edu

URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html

A. L. Marks Civil War Diary, ca. 1861-1864

Collection number: Wyles SC 306

Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara

Contact Information:

Department of Special Collections
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone: (805) 893-3062
Fax: (805) 893-5749
Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html

Processed by:

Preliminary arrangement and description by D. Tambo

Date Completed:

18 November 2003

Encoded by:

David C. Gartrell

Descriptive Summary

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

Physical Location: Vault

Language: English.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

None.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred Citation

A. L. Marks Civil War Diary. Wyles SC 306. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

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 15th Illinois Vol. Infantry, at Dixon, Illinois. The diary describes the movements and engagements of the 15th 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

Civil War diary of A. L. Marks from Chicago, ca. 1861 - 1864