Civil War Diaries and Letters Digital Collection: Civil War Diaries Transcription Project

University of Iowa Libraries ^ | 06/20/2011 | Digital Library Services

[iowamark]

"Thanks to the development of "crowdsourcing" or collaborative transcription of manuscript materials, libraries are now able to use the knowledge and interest of the general public to meet goals that they would never have the time, financial, and staff resources to achieve on their own. Please help us transcribe the 3011 diary pages in this collection.

Simply select a diary and enter the text as it appears on the digitized image."

[iowamark]

A very worthwhile and interesting transcription project.

Iowa Digital Library presents: Civil War Diaries and Letters

George M. Shearer(1837-1912), photographed in 1863

[iowamark]

A public exhibition is in the University of Iowa’s Main Library’s North Lobby exhibition hall in Iowa City, Iowa from April - July, 2011.

[kalee]

ping

[Sea Parrot]

"George M. Shearer(1837-1912), photographed in 1863 "

He has a Remington 1858 New Model Army .44 C&B there.

Mine with three C&B cylinders (they are fast and easy to change out) and one .45 LC conversion cylinder.

[Sea Parrot]

Whoops, may be my bad, after closer look at link with image enlarged, it could very well be he had a Remington New Model Navy, (Beals?) .36 caliber

[ZULU]

How can you tell the difference between caliber from that picture?

[Squantos]

Very nice gear.....BTTT !

[bcsco]

Bump for later

[goldfinch]

bump for later

[Sea Parrot]

Army model only came in .44 and the Navy only in .36.

The 1858 Army .44 caliber had 8” barrel, the Navy .36 caliber barrels varied from 7.5” to 7.375”. Navy model also had a slightly smaller frame and different loading lever than the Army model.

[SunkenCiv]

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[colorado tanker]

Great idea. This reminds me of some of the haunting diary entries (and letters) they used in the Ken Burns series.

[SunkenCiv]

Speaking of which, the local museum here has had a special exhibit on the Civil War local connections (I suspect it includes letters) probably in that fairly small room of display windows off the ground floor of the whale room. Have to get down there, maybe on Friday.