Summary Information
William Fagg Diaries
1850-1898
Green Bay Micro 41; Micro 581
1 reel of microfilm (35mm)
UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Diaries, 1850-1898, concerning Fagg's life in lumber camps along the Wisconsin River during the 1850s; service as a private in Company E, the 14th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, 1862-1863, including battles at Shiloh, Corinth, and Vicksburg; brief service, 1863, as a 2nd lieutenant, Company I, 47th United States Colored Troops; and his activities as a farmer and local public official in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin. Marriages that Fagg performed as a Justice of the Peace are also recorded, as are death records and military pension applications maintained by Fagg in his role as Post Adjutant of his local Grand Army of the Republic chapter. Also included is information about his immediate family, farm records and financial accounts, and a letter from his oldest daughter, then age 11, to her grandmother.
English
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Administrative/Restriction Information
The provenance of the first two volumes, 1850-1872, is unknown. They had been loaned for microfilming to the Historical Society, apparently in the mid-1950s. By 1975, the Historical Society's original microfilm negative was missing. However, Mr. Kenneth S. Fagg of Chappaqua, New York, had a positive print from which the Society's present negative was made in 1976. The quality of this portion of the collection is poor in places. The third volume, dated 1873-1898, was loaned for microfilming by Carmon R. Estheimer, of Farmington, Utah, in 1981. The two microfilm copies have been spliced together to form this single collection. Accession Number: M76-115, M81-244
Processed by Max J. Evans, September 1981.
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