My grandfather, Maston O'Neal Jr. , of Bainbridge, Georgia passed away in 1990. I inherited a large collection of books of which this original as yet unpublished diary was one.
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FROM A DIARY CLAYTON'S OCTAVO DIARY FOR 1861 Published Annually New York E.B. CLAYTON'S SONS Printers and Stationers No. 157 Pearl Street The diary appears to have been kept irregularly in 1861 in one handwriting beginning on Tuesday, March 5th. Judging from the handwriting some other person kept the diary again in 1867 striking out the 1 in 1861 at the top of each page and substituting therfor a 7. It may not have been an other person but the same person whose handwriting changed with maturity. Most of what certainly is the 1861 series of entries is in pencil and it is judged from the content that the diarist was a young boy in his teens attending school at Greenshade in Decatur County, Georgia. The following are the daily entries believed to have been all written in 1861.
Go to First Entry - March 5, 1861
Go to Entry of August 12, 1861
Go to Entry of September 10th, 1861
Go to Entry of September 26th, 1861
Go to Entry of October 11th, 1861
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