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US Civil War Diaries and Letters ( 1861- 1866 ) |
The Thomas B. Robinson Diary is dated July 8, 1865 to April 10, 1866. Robinson served with Company M of the Tenth Illinois Cavalry. He related his experiences and impressions of people, towns and countryside as his brigade marched from Shreveport, Louisiana, to San Antonio, Texas, where he was mustered out of service. His journey home to Kingston, Illinois, in DeKalb County and activities in that area, as well as in Kane County, Illinois, occupy the last third of the diary.
Robinson’s diary is useful to researchers for its descriptions of the daily life of a U.S. cavalry soldier after the Civil War and the hardships of travel. It also gives a picture of the towns and countryside in Texas from Greenwood to San Antonio during 1865-66.
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