Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty

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Includes Gunn's descriptions of his experiences as a war correspondent for ""The New York Tribune"" at Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, especially Hilton Head, Port Royal, St. Augustine, Key West, and the end of his experiences with the Army of the Potomac during the Peninsular Campaign when he had to leave camp due to illness.
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Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty
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Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty
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Missouri History Museum
Date Issued
1862
Language
English
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2010-09-10
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A0632
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Thomas Butler Gunn was born February 15, 1826, in Banbury, England, and came to New York in 1849. During the Civil War he worked as a correspondent for the New York Tribune and the New York Evening Post. He returned to England in 1863, and died in Birmingham in April 1903. The collection includes twenty-one volumes of his diaries, including newspaper clippings, letters, and various other items inserted by Gunn. Diary entries date from July 7, 1849, to April 7, 1863, and include his experiences with the New York publishing and literary world, his descriptions of boarding houses, his travels throughout the United States, and his experiences traveling with the Federal army as a Civil War correspondent.
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Gunn, . T. B. (1862). Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty (1–). https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/gunn-diaries/thomas-butler-gunn-diaries-volume-twenty
Gunn, Thomas Butler. 1862. “Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty”. https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/gunn-diaries/thomas-butler-gunn-diaries-volume-twenty.
Gunn, Thomas Butler. Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty. 1862, https://preserve.lehigh.edu/digital-special-collections/gunn-diaries/thomas-butler-gunn-diaries-volume-twenty.