William E. Walsh Civil War Diary (rppc_walsh)

Biographical note

Enlisting in Providence, Rhode Island on December 2, 1861, as a private and mustering out on August 3, 1865, as a corporal, William E. Walsh's "Notes in Brief' is the centerpiece of the collection. Dated May 17, 1865, and based on memory and notes, this is the first reminiscence of an Irish immigrant serving in the Civil War to be uncovered in Rhode Island.