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Colonel Billy Wilson.
ment, which Hills undertook, our triumvi-
rate receiving, as honorarium, three bottles
of ale and one of sweet wine, which were
incontinently drank. This day we got the
President s Emancipation Proclamation, which
I read first to our negroes and then to others
brought in by them for that purpose. Tues-
20.
day. To Capt.
Cowie s office
to return Or-
ley Farm and
inquire about
commisariat
whiskey. Sent
the negro Har-
ry for a jug
of the latter.
Strolling
about; an af-
ternoon in
doors. In the
[photograph]
Colonel Billy Wilson.
evening with
Howell to the
camp of Billy
Wilson s regi-
ment, there
to sup with
the redoubtable
colonel and his
officers, in
a house, with
a cheery fire
burning in a
sitting-room,
the mess room
beyond. Wil-
son himself looked very much improved since the
th time I saw him on Staten Island, his com-
plexion being clear and healthy. He was quite
bald. His officers seemed goodhumoured fellows
on a democratic footing of equality with one another.
I saw, however, none of the rowdy element in| Page |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty-One: page one hundred and eighty-seven |
| Description: | Mentions a visit to the camp of Colonel Billy Wilson's regiment. |
| Date: | 1863-01-19 |
| Subject: | Books and reading; Civil War; Cowie, Captain; Emancipation Proclamation; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Harry (slave); Hills, A.C.; Howell; Military; Slavery; Slaves; Wilson, Billy |
| Coverage (City/State): | [Baton Rouge, Louisiana] |
| Scan Date: | 2010-11-18 |
| Volume |
| Title: | Thomas Butler Gunn Diaries, Volume Twenty-One |
| Description: | Includes Gunn's descriptions of his experiences as a war correspondent for ""The New York Tribune"" at New Orleans, Louisiana, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; boarding house living; a visit to the Rawlings family; a fight with Mr. Blankman at his boarding house; his journey on the North Star with the Banks expedition; the re-occupation of Baton Rouge by Union forces; a visit to a sugar plantation in Louisiana; and Fanny Fern's daughter Grace Thomson's death. |
| Subject: | African Americans; Boardinghouses; Bohemians; Civil War; Gunn, Thomas Butler; Journalism; Military; Publishers and publishing; Transportation; Travel; Women |
| Coverage (City/State): | New York, New York; New Orleans, Louisiana; Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Note: | Thomas Butler Gunn was born February 15, 1826, in Banbury, England, and came to New York in 1849. During the Civil War he worked as a correspondent for the New York Tribune and the New York Evening Post. He returned to England in 1863, and died in Birmingham in April 1903. The collection includes twenty-one volumes of his diaries, including newspaper clippings, letters, photographs, sketches, and various other items inserted by Gunn. Diary entries date from July 7, 1849, to April 7, 1863, and include his experiences with the New York publishing and literary world, his descriptions of boarding houses, his travels throughout the United States, and his experiences traveling with the Federal army as a Civil War correspondent. |
| Publisher: | Missouri History Museum |
| Rights: | Copyright 2010 Missouri History Museum. |
| Source: | Page images, transcriptions, and metadata of the Thomas Butler Gunn diaries have been provided by the Missouri History Museum. |
