Excerpts from Christian Fleetwood's Field Diary

ID: 46 ~ Source: National Humanities Center, 2007: nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/. Digital images of diary pages courtesy of the Library of Congress, Manuscript
Division, Christian A. Fleetwood Collection; entire diary accessible via African American Odyssey (American Memory) at memory.loc.gov/ammem/aao
html/exhibit/aopart4b.html (scroll down; click on Fleetwood diary page). Black-and-white photographs courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints &
Photo-graphs Division. Color photograph of Fleetwood’s Medal of Honor from the Smithsonian Institution Press; permission pending. Complete image
credits at nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/imagecredits.htm. ~ Creator: National Humanities Center ~ Date: June - December 1864
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Excerpts from Christian Fleetwood's Field Diary
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The 1864 entries included here are:
- June 15-16, 21-22 Battle of Petersburg, Virginia.
- July 21-22 Fleetwood’s birthday (July 21; age 24).
- August 30-31 “Wrote and wrote and wrote!”
- Sept. 27-30 Battle of New Market Heights, Virginia.
- Dec. 16-17, 20-21 Transport by steamship to North Carolina.
- Dec. 24-25 Union attack on Fort Fisher, North Carolina.
- Dec. 28-31 Return to Virginia; thoughts on the year’s end.

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"Lying in woods all day. Nothing new. Turned out at Midnight an attack being made. Moved out but were not called upon. Weather fine and warm."~Diary entry, Wednesday, June 22, 1864 Sergeant Major Christian A. Fleetwood of the U.S. Colored Infantry…