War Diaries (June 12) (nonfiction)
War Diary quotations for June 12
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Isaac Lyman Taylor: June 12, 1863
Warm day. Studying Botany. Rebs throw a few shells at our balloon above Falmouth this morning causing it to seek the earth in "double-quick" time.
—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).
Tatsusei Yogi: June 12, 1945
The owner of the shelter came and we had to leave in the evening. We tried to find some potatoes but failed. We started to go toward Komesu, but it was dark so we slept in a house at Makabe.
—Tatsusei Yogi was a Japanese civilian in Okinawa who kept a diary.
- A Wartime Diary by Tatsusei Yogi, edited by Takashi Yogi