War Diaries (November 7) (nonfiction)
War Diary quotations for November 7
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Mother Mary Cecilia Bailly: November 7, 1864
Monday I go to town on the cars. … This was also the day of the Presidential election; the town is very quiet, it rains in torrents, many men are on the streets, but no quarreling and fighting.
In the Sisters of Providence Archives there is a bound transcription of the diary of General Superior Mother Mary Cecilia Bailly. She served as general superior after the death of Mother Theodore Guerin in 1856 until 1868, covering the turbulent years of the Civil War, 1861-1865. The diary consists of entries about the day-to-day activities of Mother Mary Cecilia, the Congregation and local and national happenings. Some entries are very short — one sentence — while others are more detailed.
- Civil War diary entries by Connie McCammon @ swsmw.org (May 9, 2012)
Creed T. Davis: November 7, 1864
Same camp. The wind blew violently last night, scattering our fires in every direction. At midnight the woods were discovered to be on fire. Bugler John T. Jones sounded the assembly, and our men were marched out to fight
Diary of Creed T. Davis, Private Second Company Richmond Howitzers.
Reina Spiegel: November 7, 1941
Ghetto! That word is ringing in our ears. We don’t know what will happen to us, where they’ll take us. We were ordered to leave our apartments before 2 p.m. with 25 kilograms of possessions. Maybe there will be a ghetto, but it seems that we will definitely have to move out of the main streets either way.
At 10:30 last night, suddenly the doorbell rang, and who was there? The police! I pressed my hands to my face then and I called you, oh God, and you heard me. It was a policeman from our old village and he let himself be bribed. I reminded him of the good times, the friends, the revels, and somehow it worked. And now I’m asking you, oh Great One, I’m asking you—I, a speck of dust, I, without a father or mother here...listen to my call!
Renia Spiegel began her diary in January 1939 at the age of 15.
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External links
- Civil War diary entries by Connie McCammon @ swsmw.org (May 9, 2012)
- Diary of Creed T. Davis, Private Second Company Richmond Howitzers (PDF)
- Excerpts from the Diaries of Renia Spiegel @ Smithsonian Magazine