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These two volumes belonged to Jacob M. March (1840-1913) who served with Company G in the 1st Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment, having mustered June 6, 1861, and been discharged June 13, 1864. The first part of volume one includes entries from a member of the 8th Regiment of the North Carolina Volunteer Army of the Confederacy, and it includes lists of supplies (both medical and other) requisitioned for the unit. The book was found on a battlefield in June 1862 and became the property of March. March then writes about battles, troop movements, letters from home, making out payroll for the unit, and supplies received. He also includes lists of casualties (wounded, killed, and missing) for his unit at various points. The last entry in volume one is on March 15, 1863. In volume two, March notes that he went home on furlough in late March to see his dying father and then returned to camp; he later received a letter about his father’s death. The volume concludes in June 1864, March having described his trip back to Pennsylvania, primarily by train. Jacob March served as the private secretary to Judge C. F. Burnham in Washington, D.C., after the war. March returned to Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, in the 1880s and later moved to Spring City, where in 1905 he opened and operated the Spring City Business College. March was married to Hannah Dyer (1844-1913), and they had a son, Paul, and daughters Maude and Blanche. Both March and his wife are buried in Morris Cemetery in Phoenixville.