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Theodore Reichardt
1839–1925
Best remembered for a vivid firsthand Civil War diary, this Rhode Island artilleryman left behind an immediate, day-by-day record of camp life, marches, and battle. His writing gives modern readers a plainspoken view of military service as it was lived.
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Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery
by Theodore Reichardt
About the author
Theodore Reichardt was an American veteran and author associated with Rhode Island. He is known for Diary of Battery A, First Regiment Rhode Island Light Artillery, a work published in 1865 and described by library and ebook records as a firsthand account of Battery A during the Civil War.
Because surviving biographical information appears to be limited, it is safest to focus on the work itself: Reichardt wrote from lived experience, and his diary has continued to circulate through major public-domain and library collections. That has helped preserve his reputation as a soldier-writer whose observations offer a direct window into Union army life.
Available memorial records identify him as living from 1839 to 1925 and being buried in Providence, Rhode Island. While many personal details are not easy to confirm from readily available sources, his diary remains a useful and enduring historical record.