FROM THE DIARY OF SETH J. WELLS INCLUDING WEEKS OF PREPARATION AND OF OCCUPATION AFTER THE SURRENDER DETROIT, MICHIGAN WM. H. ROWE, Publisher. 1915....

The Diary of Seth J. Wells from June 14th, 1861, to July 9th, 1864, relates to the every day life of the soldier in camp and field and records its tramps and hardships cheerfully borne. The Siege of Vicksburg is taken from the Diary. He was born on April 26th 1842 in Iowa, Des Moines County, near the village of Rising Sun and was reared in his Grandfather Ewell’s family on the “Ewell Farms” in Michigan, Macomb County, near the village of Utica. He was wounded in battle and died a few days later

Dunlap Springs, Nov. 3, 1862. We have built a snug log house and last night for the first and probably last time have slept in it; for our company has orders to move down town and act as city guards. There are eight or ten regiments here, some of them new ones from Jackson, Miss. The new regiments, like all new ones, have great confidence in themselves and think the war is to be settled by them and them only. There is an undercurrent of jealousy existing between the old and new troops. The old t