Pattison, Robert, Captain:

$7,500 · Offered by William Reese Company

[CIVIL WAR DIARY OF CAPTAIN ROBERT PATTISON OF THE 16th ILLINOIS VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, PROVIDING AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE UNION'S ATLANTA CAMPAIGN IN TENNESSEE AND GEORGIA AND THE SHENANDOAH ... A junior officer's eyewitness account of important military engagements in both Sherman's Atlanta Campaign and Sheridan's Shenandoah Campaign. This fascinating diary, written by twenty-seven-year-old lieutenant (later captain) Robert Pattison of the 16th Illinois Infantry, covers the entire year of 1863, while his company was on duty in Nashville and at various stations in Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia; continues through his participation in the Siege of Atlanta in 1864, and ends in January 1865 after the author was promoted, transferred to Sheridan's Shenandoah Campaign, and was wounded during the battle of Cedar Creek.During the course of 1863 and 1864, the 16th Illinois participated in eight engagements documented in this diary, including Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost, Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Rome, Dallas, Kolb's Farm, and Kennesaw Mountain. Following Pattison's promotion to Captain and Assistant Commissary of Subsistence for the Department of West Virginia's Kanawha Division, he supported Sheridan at Berryville and Fisher's Hill. Pattison's diary stops abruptly after his mention of action beginning at Cedar Creek on October 14th, 1864, and the entries do not start again until his arrival at Bermuda Hundred on December 28th, matching exactly with his pension disability applicat

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