Civil War Diary, March 7- September 8th, 1864. Written mostly in Georgia as a member of the Signal Corp by Frankenberry, Allen D - 1864

1864. Civil War Dairy of Allen David Frankenberry (1841-1909) from March 7 to September 8, 1864 covering much of the time he was in the Signal Corps in Georgia. There is war content, accounts of foraging, cooking, and camp life. Well written with very good detail. The diary ends about a month before the battle of Allatoona where Frankenberry may have sent one of the famous signals to hold the fort.


"Frankenberry, while attending college at Waynesburg, Greene county, enlisted on August 20th, 1863, in Company K, Fifteenth Pennsylvania Cavalry, better known as the Anderson Cavalry, serving with this command as Orderly at Headquarters of the Department of the Cumberland in the field until January 14th, 1864, when he was transferred to the signal corps, U.S.A., where he remained until discharged from the army, June 20th, 1865." (find a Grave).