Diary kept by Jon Miller while a surgeon in the Union Army. Inscribed "Jon G. Miller Born July 31st 1820 Died Sept 15 1892."

Includes daily entries range from one word to a paragraph. Covers marching, camp life, occasional fighting, sometimes the number of wounded, seldom other medical information, memoranda of the type of country (with eye to acquisition?), people met, letters from family and friends, weather. Followed by misc. memoranda ("Half a cranberry tied on a corn will kill it"; "...the above are reported... to have made threats to burn and blow up houses and kill negroes."; etc.) and his financial accounts. Little intimate material.

Miller was responsible for establishing the hospital in Marietta, Georgia and probably the one in Beaufort, South Carolina, and apparently for escorting 5000 negroes, 700 wagons, 1000 refugees, and 500 prisoners from Canton to Vicksburg, Mississippi (February 28, 1864).

Places described in the diary include Georgia: Rome east to Bia Shanty; Marietta (established hospital); Savannah. Iowa: Eddyville and environs, Davenport, Burlington (home leave). Tennessee: Clifton; Waynesboro-Lawrenceburg-Pulaski. Alabama: Huntsville east to Big Wills Creek Mississippi River north to Keokuk (Iowa). Mississippi: near Vicksburg-Meridian-Vicksburg South Carolina: Beaufort (established hospital); to Columbia.

Found laid in,"Daily pocket remembrancer for 1864. For the trade." No imprint; but astronomical information signed Samuel H. Wright, Dundee, New York.