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[In a letter to [[Rufus Hamilton (nonfiction)|Rufus Hamilton]].]
—[[Benjamin Gilbert (nonfiction)|Benjamin Gilbert]], soldier (letter to [[Rufus Hamilton (nonfiction)|Rufus Hamilton]])


[[Benjamin Gilbert (nonfiction)|Benjamin Gilbert]] was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War whose kept a diary and wrote letters. The diary entries are terse and heavily abbreviated. They nearly always include a comment about the weather. There is very little information about actual fighting or battles, but they do frequently describe preparing to fight and moving from place to place. They contain information not usually found in descriptions of the typical activities of continental soldiers.
* [https://www.historyisfun.org/learn/learning-center/benjamin-gilbert/ Benjamin Gilbert] @ historyisfun.org
 
=== George Beck: October 13, 1944 ===
 
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Feeling a little better but cannot move, in agony when the dressings are changed, tube in my side, and bad chest through ether.
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—[[George Beck (nonfiction)|George Beck]],1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)


* [https://www.historyisfun.org/learn/learning-center/benjamin-gilbert/ Benjamin Gilbert] @ historyisfun.org
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* [https://www.historyisfun.org/learn/learning-center/benjamin-gilbert/ Benjamin Gilbert] @ historyisfun.org
* [https://www.historyisfun.org/learn/learning-center/benjamin-gilbert/ Benjamin Gilbert] @ historyisfun.org
* http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/george_beck1.htm


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Latest revision as of 05:59, 25 May 2020

War Diary entries for October 13

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Diaries

Benjamin Gilbert: October 13, 1780

You cannot conceive how disagreeable time itself appeared to me on my first arrival in Camp having Just left the rural enjoyments of Domestick life, and obliged to conform to the strick regulations and implicit obedience of a Military government, but this being become habitual and familiar I am tolerable reconciled to my present situation.

—Benjamin Gilbert, soldier (letter to Rufus Hamilton)

George Beck: October 13, 1944

Feeling a little better but cannot move, in agony when the dressings are changed, tube in my side, and bad chest through ether.

—George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)

In the News

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