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Title: Civil War archive of Lieutenant James Clinton Woodworth, 25th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, Company H, 1861-1865 Author: Woodworth, Lt. James Clinton Place: Publisher: Date: 1861-1865 Description: Archive comprises: 6 handwritten diaries, various sizes and bindings, comprising in total approximately neatly penned 785 pages and including approximately 35 sketches and hand-drawn maps. Album of 73 tin-type photographs, 69 of which are identified with the names of members of the Company (including 2 of J.C. Woodworth), 4 are unidentified, there are spaces for 2 additional soldiers photographs, the names listed but without images (perhaps 2 of the unidentified images belong in these spaces). The period full gilt decorated red morocco album measures approximately 3½x3¼". Various pieces of paperwork and ephemera including a Confederate $10.00 bill and a Louisiana $5.00 bill (both split), J.C. Woodworth's commission, discharge papers, leave pass, Muster-In Roll, Annual Reunion ribbon of the 25th Mass of Worcester, Massachusetts (dated Oct. 17, 1899), manuscript Memorial of James C. Woodworth of Fort Wayne, Ind., Woodworth's uniform buttons, 25th Regiment patch, 3 pairs of shoulder bars, Grand Army of the Republic officers medal, several carte de visite photographs of Lieut. Woodworth, Maj. General Burnside, Major General Banks, etc. A period small footlocker with Woodworth's name stenciled on the end. A remarkable archive of diaries and identified portrait photographs of nearly the entire company. The diaries are numbered 1 through 6 by Lt. Woodworth; No. 1 begins on Sept. 25, 1861 at Camp Lincoln in Worcester, No. 2 begins on May 22, 1862 at Camp Bullock, 11 miles from Newburn, NC. No. 3 begins on Nov. 23, 1862 at Camp Harkness. No. 4 begins on March 30, 1863 at Camp Flusser, near Plymouth, NC, No. 5 begins on August 10, 1863 at Worcester while on leave, returns to camp near Deep Gully, No. 6 begins on April 15, at Camp Wellington, near Portsmouth, VA and ends with Lieut. Woodworth arriving in Fort Wayne, Indiana in May, 1865. The diaries are legibly written and rife with graphic detail of the movements and engagements of the Company, a number of the entries are illustrated by Woodworth with sketches and maps. Excerpts from the diaries include: Saturday, Feb. 8, 1862. ”...Crossing a muddy brook up to our knees a little further on and going a few rods still farther, without scarcely halting we turned off to the left into a thick underbrush, per order of Col. This was about 1 mile from our place of starting, the brush was so thick that we could proceed only in single file and very slowly at that. Firing of small arms then began to reach our ears and pretty soon, cannon. After passing the 21st on the road we had overtaken 2 or 3 small brass howitzers drawn by ropes by sailors and soldiers. Whether this firing came from them or the enemy I know not, but supposed it to be from the latter. For one half an hour we traversed this thicket, with water up to our knees at nearly every step, of course without firing a gun...the firing was now very rapid, and we rambled about in the woods for a long time before any of us fired a gun. …we did deploy for some time longer. There was no regularity in marching, nor could there be any, and in the course of this movement I lost the main body of the Company, who had (I afterwards found out) kept on to the left in the direction of the cannonade. …they found themselves before what proved to be a rebel battery of 3 Guns and 200 yards from it, they remained here for near an hour. Meanwhile I had been directed to a spot where lay a mortally wounded man of Co. I, 25th...He was shot in the forehead and the blood was streaming over his face, presenting the most dreadful sight I ever saw. He was the first wounded man I saw. I took hold of his legs, which were laying the the water, while Ed. Wellington and H. Furnald took hold of each arm. So deep was the water, that we made