War Diaries (June 11) (nonfiction)
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Diaries
William R. Townsend: June 11, 1863
Had Brigade drill today in the morning Co drill this afternoon rained in the middle of the day wrote to Sister Mollie also to Sarah No 11 Also had Montgomery write a lawyer at Springfield about my recruiting money ... if I can get it it will be a good thing about two hundred dollars
—Captain William R. Townsend, 42nd Illinois Infantry (diary)
Isaac Lyman Taylor: June 11, 1863
Relieved at 9 A.M. Warm day. Co. L. of our Regt. went across the river yesterday to pay their respects to the Rebel sharp-shooters who annoy Sedgwick's pickets. Two of them were wounded but they succeeded in "drying up" the picket firing except between the sharp-shooters
—Isaac Lyman Taylor, Company E, First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry
Taylor kept a diary of his experiences while serving with Company E of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry.
The story of Kilpatrick's cavalry is related in James Moore, Kilpatrick and Our Cavalry (New York, 1865).
Van Buren Oldham: June 11, 1864
I thought this morning that I would have been gone by now. But the surg[eon] has said nothing to me yet about whether I thought I could stand the experience. The fact is, I would prefer remaining here until I at least feel well for twenty-four hours. [Being] out of a house now would make my cough as bad as ever. I am told that I could be detailed as clerk in the Post Surgeons Office. But I hate to apply, for it looks like so many are after details that one would be considered as trying to play [it] out. I am tired of this war. I wish it could end yet not upon such terms as the enemy could dictate. When I reflect upon the consequences of this war and the curse of demoralization which it will leave among the people, I can but shudder. It will require all the intellect and virtue of the country to reduce them to subordination to the authority of law, to suppress crime, to command respect for civil authority, and to inspire habits of industry and domestic thrift.
—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
Tatsusei Yogi: June 11, 1945
Tatsusei Yogi was a Japanese civilian in Okinawa.
We tried to find a better shelter but failed and returned to our original place.
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Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
- Martin Van Buren Oldham (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)
- A Wartime Diary by Tatsusei Yogi, edited by Takashi Yogi
- 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