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"About 2 P.M., we started for the old battlefield of Manassas... we fell in with many more troops bound for the same place. Heavy fireing [sic] could be heard ahead... we moved so near the Enemy as to be able to hear them talk distinctly. The cries of the wounded were awful..."
Civil War Diary of Harrison Jump, 82nd Ohio Infantry
Regiment. 1862 pocket diary. 3.25" x 6", 57 pages, recto and
verso; bound in soft cloth boards. Entries date from July 9, 1862
to August 19, 1863, but chiefly span from July to September of
1862. Written in pencil and ink. Harrison Jump (1840-1899) was born
in Marion County, Ohio. He enlisted on November 27, 1861 at the age
of twenty-one and mustered into Company D of the 82nd Ohio Infantry
Regiment as a private. (His surname occasionally appears as Gump or
Jessup in official records.) He was wounded at the Battle of
McDowell and spent a few weeks convalescing at home. The diary
begins after his return to camp in the summer of 1862. His entries
discuss the 82nd's pursuit of CSA General John Morgan Hunt, the
battles of Cedar Mountain and Groveton (or Second Battle of Bull
Run), camp life and his experience in a Union hospital. The diary
is accompanied by a typed transcription. [Punctuation has
occasionally been altered in the description for clarity.]Jump's early entries in July 1862 discuss the near-constant rumors concerning the location of General Morgan's cavalry. The 82nd spent several days in a state of high alert and on July 15, he recorded yet another false alarm. "...Afternoon, we having got word that Morgan was coming in force with a cannon, we were asked to go to work upon a breastwork. Myself and 11 others were started out on the road as pickets and we expected to be driven back ere we reached our post. But no Morgan and we remained until near night, taking dinner with a secesh lady..." On July 17, they again received word that Morgan and his men were nearby. They were hastily organized into lines and engaged in a skirmish, only to learn afterward that Morgan's main force was gone. "....Our knapsacks were hauled out course towards George town where Morgan was said to be. When we had gone about 4 miles word came to us that he was formed in line of battle a short distance in front of us... but farther than three rounds from out 20 pound Parots and a few shots by the skirmishers added to an immense amount of maneuvering in wheat oats and corn fields, there was no battle; and we soon learned that a squad of about forty of Morgans cavilry [sic], and a few stragglers and negro wenches in the woods had been the caus [sic] of all this extravigent [sic] movement... While here word came that Morgan had taken the National pike and was fast moveing [sic] upon Lexington..."
On August 9, he describes the Battle of Cedar Mountain. "...we had just begun to sleep nicely when word came for all to be ready. We were careful to see that each man had plenty of amunition [sic], fireing [sic] could distinctly be heard, and we expect to see the Enemy before night. Our brigade is an independent one, and ready for any thing... we lay here until near sundown when we were ordered to fall in... all was excitement. Many of our troops are moveing, the cheers when Gen Milroys brigade came up were loud and earnest. But Gen. Seigle [Sigel] rode past our Brigade, the cheers arose high about the surrounding confusion. We moved sloly [sic] on towards the scene of conflict. Soon we began to meet the wounded and stragglers of the regiments who were in the fight. Each one had a story to tell... when we were well out towards the field and when there had been very severe shelling fore a time we were surprise to learn that the 3d Wisconsin had been severely cut up and that the stragglers were bound to get through the guard line, being quite panic stricken. The 5th Va was formed and the way cleared by the bayonet then on we went until we reached a brushy field where we haulted [sic], stacked arms, and laid down..."
Jump describes their actions throughout the Northern Virginia campaign, including shelling and skirmishing as they moved along White Sulphur Spring and the Warrington and Waterloo Pike. On August 28, they marched to Manassas, where the Second Battle of Bull Run had commenced. In his entry for this day, he describes the sounds on the battlefield after they arrived. "...About 2 P.M., we started for the old battlefield of Manassas... we fell in with many more troops bound for the same place. Heavy fireing could be heard ahead... we arrived nere [sic] the battle ground about 9 P.M. and were immediately ordered to the front, the fighting had seased [sic]; and we moved so near the Enemy as to be able to hear them talk distinctly. The cries of the wounded were awful..."
The following day, the 82nd were engaged at Groveton and Jump received the wound that effectively ended his military career. On the 29th and 30th, he describes the battle, his injury, and the significant number of casualties brought in from the field. [August 29]: "... moveing out a short distance we had the satisfaction of opening the battle... the rebel sharpshooters sliped [sic] up and wounded two men in our regiment. Our brigade soon moved up in the center. The fireing opened on the right and we were quickly ordered to support that part of the line, when we were rashly moved into a piece of woods full of the Enemy who soon overpowered us and getting to the left of us compelled us to get out as best we could. Here our Col [James Cantwell] fell dead. Many were wounded, among them myself. I had been for a while in command of the company, when a shot struck and passed through my right hand. I did not leave the field for some time however, as I wished to see the company and regiment in order again which I did. Then having been twice ordered away by the major, I left. It was during the afternoon I moved still farther to the rear and at night I slept with many more wounded at the ruins of an old house near bull run. We remained here until forced away. My wound was not dressed."
[August 30]: "Still hot. The battle raged all day. I remained at the run house until the Enemy turned our left and forced our army to retreat. We left for Centerville. It would be useless for me attempt to describe the scene of confusion..." Jump's entries continue until September 3 and describe his removal to a hospital in Baltimore. There is a gap in the diary until December 16 where Jump records his journey home to Ohio and his expectation that his discharge papers will arrive soon.
The final entry in the diary is undated and does not appear to have been written concurrently. There Jump recounts his activities from June to September of 1863, when he attended numerous Democratic political rallies, including the state convention in Columbus. Surprisingly, Jump appears to have been supportive of the Copperhead movement and related an altercation between himself and his father and a group of anti-Vallandigham men that nearly came to blows. "...when I did find my father again it was to learn that the Hellish Abolitionists of that most God forsaken hole had most scandillously [sic] abused him, and threatened my life if I should have returned the night before. They positively declare that my fathers Gray hairs are all that saved his life, But they had offered him every insult that it was possible for their bloody minds to conceive of. Judge of my indignation and feelings when I learned that, an old man, and he my father too, had been most inhumanely abused for mearly [sic] avowing himself a Vallandigham man... as I beat them in argument they of course got angry and swore Vallandigham was a traitor and all who follow him ..." Shortly after this, the diary ends mid-sentence abruptly and the following ten pages are missing.
Condition: Front board partially detached from text block. Boards lightly rubbed and soiled, but text block remains clean.
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