| Physical medium | Paper printed typed handwritten. |
| Organization of material | Organized by type of material; arranged chronologically within type. |
| Abstract |
Typed copies of correspondence, photocopies of army muster rolls, and enlistment and discharge papers. Correspondence concerns anti-personnel land mines, a rocket battery, use of balloons and ironclads, and the shift to Springfield rifles by Kiester's regiment. Other comments relate to complaints about Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, complaints about various Union officers, destruction of crops in Virginia, conduct of African American troops, and battles in Virginia and North Carolina. Pre-war correspondence concerns wages and prices in Wisconsin and Iowa, and life at Fort Dodge, Iowa, where Kiester lived from 1854 to 1858. |
| Cite as |
Jacob S. Kiester Papers, #72, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, East Carolina University. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner- 61 items; Dr. William White; Greenville, N.C.; gift; Dec. 3, 1968. |
| Biographical note | Jacob S. Kiester, a Pennsylvania native, was a laborer in Wisconsin and Iowa until the outbreak of the Civil War. As a sergeant in the 103rd Pennsylvania regiment, he participated in the Peninsular Campaign in Virginia and in skirmishes near Kinston, Goldsboro, and Plymouth, N.C. He was captured in Plymouth and died in a Confederate military prison in Florence, Ala. |
