War Diaries (June 21) (nonfiction)

War Diary entries for June 21

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Isaac Lyman Taylor: June 21, 1863

Leave Gainesville at 7 AM., pass through Haymarket & at 9-15 A.M. arrive at Thorofare Gap in the Bull Run Mountains Haymarket was once a small town but is now almost a "pile without inhabitants" It was burned by our forces in Nov. last.

—Isaac Lyman Taylor, Company E, First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry.

• http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/25/v25i04p342-361.pdf (PDF)

Henry J. Hornbeck: June 21, 1863

After dressing we mustered into service, one of the Blacks who arrived from New Orleans, into Quartermasters Department read the Army Regulations to him, and put a Military suit on him, had fine fun, making him swear by the dictionary &c.

—Henry J. Hornbeck’s Civil War diary (47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, excerpts: 1862-Early 1864). Hornbeck was stationed in Florida, near Key West, at the time of this diary entry.

• Diary of Henry J. Hornbeck
• Henry J. Hornbeck – A Highly Esteemed Citizen

Tatsusei Yogi: June 16, 1945

We started to go to Hanja in the early morning, but later decided to go to Maezato instead. When we were passing Nagusuku there was a heavy bombing attack. So we took shelter behind a stone wall all day. Then we went to Hanja, dug a shallow hole, and slept.

—Tatsusei Yogi was a Japanese civilian in Okinawa.

• A Wartime Diary by Tatsusei Yogi, edited by Takashi Yogi

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Henry J. Hornbeck (nonfiction)
• [[Isaac L. Taylor (nonfiction)
• War (nonfiction)
• War Diaries (nonfiction)
• Tatsusei Yogi (nonfiction)

External links

• http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/25/v25i04p342-361.pdf (PDF)
• Diary of Henry J. Hornbeck
• Henry J. Hornbeck – A Highly Esteemed Citizen
• A Wartime Diary by Tatsusei Yogi, edited by Takashi Yogi