War Diaries (October 27) (nonfiction)
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Benjamin Gilbert: October 27, 1779
Got back to camp just before sunrise and meeting again at 8 o’clock we kept it up drinking all day
Benjamin Gilbert was a soldier in the American Revolutionary War whose kept a diary and wrote letters. The diary entries are terse and heavily abbreviated. They nearly always include a comment about the weather. There is very little information about actual fighting or battles, but they do frequently describe preparing to fight and moving from place to place. They contain information not usually found in descriptions of the typical activities of continental soldiers.
- Benjamin Gilbert @ historyisfun.org
October 27, 1864
one ration Bread & Beef Marched out at Sunrise & taken position in Line of Battle on the right Side of Decatur (facing the town) & courtland road - at 3-o-p.m. went out to the front & Established a picket line on the left of the road in a very muddy Swamp - there we fared Sumptuously on parsley ... though very freauently aggravated by the whizzing of a greasy Minies from the Enemy - at 5 p.m. relieved from picket & many of us had fallen into the creek crossing on logs that were slick & afforded but a Limited space to the footman retired to the line of Battle, at Early dark we were Summoned to relieve the pickets on the right of the road - continued Showery all day very cold & position on picket line on hill in open old field perhaps a more disagreeable night was never Experienced by Soldiers Total from old camp 4 miles
"A brief Diary of the Campaign of the 4th Ga. Battalion Sharp Shooters from Palmetto Ga."
Mister Park: October 27, 1943
At the request of a comfort woman, I withdrew six hundred yen from her savings for remittance and then sent it out via the Central Post Office.
Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager is a book of diaries written by a clerk who worked in Japanese military brothels, also known as "comfort stations", in Burma and Singapore during World War II. The author, a Korean businessman known only as Mister Park, kept a daily diary between 1922 and 1957.
- Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager @ sdh-fact.com
- Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager
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- Benjamin Gilbert @ historyisfun.org
- Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager @ sdh-fact.com
- Diary of a Japanese Military Brothel Manager