{"id":1914,"date":"2011-01-11T10:55:42","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T15:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2011-03-16T23:23:57","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T04:23:57","slug":"1863-captain-francis-adams-donaldson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/2011\/01\/11\/1863-captain-francis-adams-donaldson\/","title":{"rendered":"1863 (Fighting for Liberty) Francis A. Donaldson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Francis A. Donaldson<\/p><\/div>\n

Sources<\/strong>
\nThe best source on Donaldson is J. Gregory Acken’s Inside the Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Experience of Captain Francis Adams Donaldson<\/a><\/em> (1998). For more information on the regiments that Donaldson served in, see History of the Corn Exchange Regiment: 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers<\/a><\/em> (1888) and Antietam to Appomattox with 118th Penna. Vols<\/a><\/em> (1892). In addition, you can learn more about other soldiers’ experiences in the Charles S. Swain collection<\/a> at the University of Michigan, which has a scrapbook of material related to Swain’s service in the 118th Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

Places to Visit<\/strong>
\nThe 118th Pennsylvania Infantry’s monument at Gettysburg National Military Park<\/a> was built in 1889 and is located on Sickles Avenue. See this page<\/a> to learn more about this monument. While in Gettysburg you can visit the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Artifacts <\/strong>
\nThe Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee has the 118th Pennsylvania Infantry’s Regimental Color<\/a>, State Color<\/a>, and National Color<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Images<\/strong>
\nSee a list of illustrations in Acken’s Inside the Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Experience of Captain Francis Adams Donaldson<\/a><\/em> (1998).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sources The best source on Donaldson is J. Gregory Acken’s Inside the Army of the Potomac: The Civil War Experience of Captain Francis Adams Donaldson (1998). For more information on the regiments that Donaldson served in, see History of the Corn Exchange Regiment: 118th Pennsylvania Volunteers (1888) and Antietam to Appomattox with 118th Penna. Vols […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8651,3974],"tags":[18,8658],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighting-for-liberty","category-terrible-war-1861-1865","tag-artifacts","tag-diaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/150th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}