| As outlined on my Biography of Thomas R. Sharp,
Sharp was a Captain in the Quartermaster branch of the Army. He
held three very interesting positions during the war --
Commander of the removal of captured Baltimore & Ohio RR
rolling stock, Officer in charge of the Confederate States Army
Locomotive Shop in Raleigh, and Superintendent of the Charlotte
& South Carolina RR. |
| Below are links to an annotated, abridged
version of the diary of daily activities that Sharp kept from
January 1861 through December 1863. Sharp's handwriting is bold,
but imprecise, making it impossible to be certain of many words
and numbers. Since the diary was kept for his own use, Sharp
freely left out words and did not explain who people were or why
he was making his many trips. I have attempted to fill in what
Sharp left out and I've left out a few events that seem
to have no connection to his military and railroad duties and
life. |
| The original of the diary is
at the Virginia Tech University Library, in Blacksburg, VA. |
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