Bartlett Yancey Malone
The diary kept by Bartlett Yancey Malone, of Caswell County, N.C., during the War Between the States has been scanned and is available as an electronic resource as part of UNC's Documenting the American South collection.
Not only is this an important record of what he witnessed as a soldier, he records astute observations of the weather and agricultural practices and results as an experianced farmer. He also spells things the way the sound to him, so if yi read what he wrote literally, you begin to get an approximation of his southern accent.
The University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sponsors Documenting the American South, and the texts and materials come primarily from its southern holdings.
Bartlett Yancey Malone was first a private and then a sergeant in Company H, 6th North Carolina Regiment State Troops, when he was fighting in Virginia and imprisoned at Point Lookout, Md.
His diary is located at the following URL:
https://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/malone/menu.html
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