Alexander Hobbs U.S. Civil War diary
This collection consists of a diary of a solider who participated in the Battle of Galveston and was a prisoner in Houston.
Alexander Hobbs was a 21 year old private, a volunteer recruit in the 42nd Massachusetts Infantry Regiment of the Union Army. He was captured on January 1,1863 at the Union defeat in the Battle of Galveston, and subsequently held prisoner in Houston. He later proceeded to Union-controlled New Orleans where he remained on parole until the 42nd Massachusettes was officially discharged on August 20, 1863.
The original materials are held by the Woodson Research Center in Fondren Library. Search the finding aid/inventory for the Alexander Hobbs Diary and Bible, MS 0370.
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