Harmon Anderson, private, 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1864
Harmon Anderson enlisted in the 110th Ohio Volunteers on 27 August 1862, was mustered out 25 June 1865. Harmon was a conscientious man and one very much devoted to his family. He was also a religious man. This diary documents his life in the Union Army from 22 May 1863 when spent a furlough at home recovering from an unspecified illness. He left home on 19 July 1863. He does join up with his unit 23 July 1862.
This diary chronicles his daily experience from that day in July to his arrival home on Christmas Day, 1864. In between Harmon and 110th Ohio volunteers were involved in a number of encounters with Confederate forces, participated in the units sent to New York to deal with the disturbances related to the new draft. He was captured by the Confederate Army on 3 May 1864 at the Second Battle of the Wilderness. Harmon writes about his experiences as he was moved south to eventually enter Ft. Sumter at Andersonville, Georgia in August 1864.
Harmon was eventually paroled in November 1864 because of his severe illness associated with scurvy. He arrived home Christmas Day, 1864.
Three version/formats of Harmon Anderson’s Civil War Diary are available on request from the family:
- Web page – Transcription
- PDF — Transcription
- PDF — scanned original diary.
Hello,
I was looking for pictures of ancestors for inclusion in my family history when I came across your website. Verrrry nice. I like what you’ve done and are doing here. You undoubtely already know that Margaret Horney and Harmon Anderson’s line documents back to the 1620 Mayflower, also that John Anderson, Harmon’s grandfather is documented to Valley Forge with Washington’s Army iof the Potomac. Catherines Janes grandmother, Margaret (Seybert) Janes, was taken captive by Shawnee in 1758 (later escaped) and that her father, mother and grandparents were slaughtered at Ft. Seybert.
I have a documented write up of this at my WordPress website
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At my blog, see ‘Category’: (My family in history, 2. Settlers and migrants), then look for the names Jacob Seybert, John Anderson, etc. Or just type names into the Search box.
My recent genealogy, tying back into the Anderson branch is as follows:
Larry F. Pierce< Rev. Robert F. Pierce< Elsie (Grubb) Pierce< Anna Flora (Anderson) Grubb< Harmon And Margaret (Horney) Anderson.
Do you have Harmon's Civil War diary posted yet? I clicked about on the 'diary page' but didn't find an active link to the text. Also what are the dimensions of the diary? My grandmother, Elsie Grubb apparently borrowed the diary whe she was quite young and took it to school to show her class, then forgot to return it and caught 'heck' from her Mom, via Margaret Anderson or who ever had posession of the book at the time.
Again, great work, I will be back to visit your site.
Larry, east 'n Texas
Larry, I sent an email with a lot of detail about our connection. Until I heard from you I had overlooked the fact that I have not yet placed Harmon Anderson’s Civil War Diary on this site. I have been totally consumed with finishing off the vignettes and genealogical records for the Anderson line. I am also a bit concerned by the number of pages and what will soon become a very complex side bar. I’ll have to study your pages a bit more to see what can be done with these.
Richard
Richard, I have been looking for any living decendants from John and Charity Anderson. They (John and and Charity) deeded a plot of land for a church in Xenia, Ohio. I am in need of contacting a living great, great..Grand child of John and Charity. The church on that plot of land has been there for 161 years and I grew up going to that church. Could you please help me out with my search? Thanks, Lillian
Lillian,
I sent a response to this request from my personal email, if you did not get that, here it is: rholmesanderson@earthlink.net. We are currently traveling and won’t be home till June 3rd. The computer I use when traveling does not have all the information I need to fully respond to this request. If you would please send the request to the address above, I will gladly dig into the search for information that may help you find what you are looking for. From the little I have gleaned from a quick, cursory search of my genealogical records, you and I are very distant cousins. The John Anderson you are looking for appears to be a brother of my great-great-grandfather.
Richard Holmes Anderson
Hello,
I am a freelance writer doing a book on the Andersonville Raiders. I read Harmon Anderson’s diary at Andersonville National Historic Site, and I’d like to quote a sentence from the diary(“There was 2 or 3 men found buried under some of their tents.”) in my book. I’m trying to track down whose permission I need to use the sentence in the book. Do you know who I should ask?
Yours,
Mary Gorman (who writes as Gary Morgan)