War Diaries (June 6) (nonfiction)

War Diary entries for June 6.

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Van Buren Oldham: June 6, 1864

Martin Van Buren Oldham.

The surg[eon] did not prescribe anything for me this morning but I am continuing the old prescription. I have felt much better and think that I will be sent off tomorrow or next day. A woman, the "keeper" of a little grocery nearby of where I have bought several drinks of whiskey, gave me butter and a very large onion. I saw an advertisement here for a clerk. If I thought I would be accepted I would apply for the position since my health is very bad. But I know there is no such good thing in store for me. I came in this army with a musket in my hands (nor had I higher aspirations) and it is my doom to serve during the war as a [peon] in the cast of danger. A good soldier is never favored while one that is of no count is living on the "fat of the land." I have a notion of going to the theater tonight if I can manage to slip off from the surg[eon].

—Martin Van Buren Oldham, Company G, 9th Tennessee Infantry ("The Hickory Blues") (diary)

• https://www.utm.edu/departments/special_collections/E579.5%20Oldham/text/vboldham_1864.php
• https://www.utm.edu/departments/special_collections/E579.5%20Oldham/text/vboldham_indx.php

Helga Deen: June 6, 1943

Transport. It is too much. I am broken and tomorrow it will happen again. But I want to [persevere], I want to because if my happiness and willpower die, I too will die.

—Helga Deen, death camp prisoner (diary)

• https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/diaries-of-another-anne-frank-shed-light-on-camp-hell-535326.html
• Helga Deen @ Wikipedia

George Beck: June 6, 1944

Today marks the greatest day of my prison life. News received from our inside information man "the second front has arrived". What excitement it brought to us lads who are always eager to snatch at the least thing regarding the war. This morning, our troops landed in France at Le Havre, Midday we were in Dieppe, Cherbourg, Biscay and one or two other places. Good foothold has been obtained and we await further results. Eisenhower's speech was great.

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

• http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/george_beck1.htm

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• George Beck (nonfiction)
• Helga Deen (nonfiction)
• Martin Van Buren Oldham (nonfiction)
• War (nonfiction)
• War Diaries (nonfiction)

External links

• https://www.utm.edu/departments/special_collections/E579.5%20Oldham/text/vboldham_1864.php
• https://www.utm.edu/departments/special_collections/E579.5%20Oldham/text/vboldham_indx.php
• https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/diaries-of-another-anne-frank-shed-light-on-camp-hell-535326.html
• Helga Deen @ Wikipedia
• http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/george_beck1.htm