Summary Information

Title: William Fagg Diaries
Inclusive Dates: 1850-1898

Creator:

• Fagg, William, 1834-1926

Call Number: Green Bay Micro 41; Micro 581

Quantity: 1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Archives and Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

Abstract:

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.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-micr0581

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