Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Tuttle, John William, 1837-1927. Diary, 1860-1867. 1 vol.
Call No.
Mss. A T967
Content
John William Tuttle of Wayne County, Kentucky, started this diary on 1 June 1860, soon after his graduation from law school, and ended it on 9 February 1867. During much of that time, Tuttle served in the Third Regiment of the Kentucky Volunteer Infantry in the Union Army during the Civil War. The Third was active in the campaigns of Mill Springs, Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Chattanooga, and Atlanta. His diary records periods of boredom, entertainment, and bloodshed. He sustained at least one injury, to his leg, for which he later received an invalid pension. A published version of the diary, The Union, the Civil War, and John W. Tuttle, edited by Hambleton Tapp and James C. Klotter, contains a pared-down, indexed transcription (see Filson call number 973.781 T967). The Kentucky Historical Society also houses a full transcript.