Accession #: 1988.026.

McDonald enlisted in Company F, 21st Infantry on August 9, 1862 in Lowell. (Other reports have him enlisted in Company B, 21st Michigan Volunteer Infantry.) He was mustered September 3, 1862 and mustered out at Washington D.C., June 8, 1865.

This collection includes a transcribed and photocopied version of McDonald’s recollection of his contribution to the Civil War. He reports on the conditions in Chattanooga and Lookout Mountain, and participated in the Battle of Chickamauga, Sherman’s March to the Sea, the Battle of Bentonville and the Great Review in Washington D.C.