1862 Civil War Diary of Harrison Jump, 82nd Ohio Regiment - BATTLE ACCOUNTS For Sale

"About 2 P.M., we started for the old battlefield of Manassas... we fell in with many more troops bound for the same place. Heavy fireing [sic] could be heard ahead... we moved so near the Enemy as to be able to hear them talk distinctly. The cries of the wounded were awful..."
Civil War Diary of Harrison Jump, 82nd Ohio Infantry Regiment. 1862 pocket diary. 3.25" x6", 57 pages, recto and verso; bound in soft cloth boards. Entries date from July 9, 1862 to August 19, 1863, but chiefly span from July to September of 1862. Written ni pencil and ink. Harrison Jump (1840-1899) was born in Marion County, Ohio. He enlisted on November 27, 1861 at the age of twenty-one and mustered into Company D of the 82nd Ohio Infantry Regiment as a private. (His surname occasionally appears as Gump or Jessup in official records.) He was wounded at the Battle of andf Groveton (or Second Battle of Bull Run), camp life and his experience in a Union hospital. The diary is accompanied by a typed transcription. [Punctuation has occasionally been altered in the description for clarity.]
Jump's early entries in July 1862 discuss the near-constant rumors concerning the location of General Morgan's cavalry. The 82nd spent several days in a state of high alert and on July 15, he recorded yet another false alarm. "...Afternoon, we having got word that Morgan was coming in force with a cannon, we were asked to go to work upon a breastwork. Myself and 1 others were started out on the road as pickets and we expected to be driven back ere we reached ourpost. But no Morgan and we remained until near night, taking dinner with a secesh lady.." On July 17, they again received word that Morgan and his men were nearby. They were hastily organized into lines and engaged in a skirmish, only to learn afterward that Morgan's main force was gone. "...Our knapsacks were hauled out course towards George town where Morgan was said to be. When we had gone about 4 miles word came to us that he was formed in line of battle a short distance in front of us... but farther than three rounds from out 20 pound Parots and ano battle; and we soon learned that a squad of about forty of Morgans cavilry [sic], and a few stragglers and negro wenches in the woods had been the caus [sic] of all this extravigent [sic] movement... While here word came that Morgan had taken the National pike and was fast moveing [sic] upon Lexington..."