Coogle, Benjamin F.

Overview One diary kept by Second Lieutenant Benjamin F. Coogle of Company A, 6th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, "Sunday Soldiers", a unit stationed along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Grafton and Piedmont, West Virginia. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant on 22 September 1864, and discharged 10 June 1865. There are entries for the period 12 September 1864 through 14 June 1865, and a few miscellaneous entries for the years 1871 and 1872. Entries are generally short and succinct,...