Civil War Diary of Captain Charles Hall, Annotated: Company E, 4th Regiment Infantry, New Jersey Volunteers in Virginia, 1861-1862

Diary of Charles Hall, captain of a New Jersey infantry company stationed in northern Virginia. Describes training and deployment in Peninsula Campaign. Hall was very ill and had to flee to escape Confederate troops in peninsula. Notes provide background and context. List of men who mustered in with Hall in Aug 1861 and summary of their military careers is given.