War Diaries (June 21) (nonfiction)
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Isaac Lyman Taylor: June 21, 1863
Leave Gainesville at 7 AM., pass through Haymarket & at 9-15 A.M. arrive at Thorofare Gap in the Bull Run Mountains Haymarket was once a small town but is now almost a "pile without inhabitants" It was burned by our forces in Nov. last.
—Isaac Lyman Taylor, Company E, First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry.
Henry J. Hornbeck: June 21, 1863
After dressing we mustered into service, one of the Blacks who arrived from New Orleans, into Quartermasters Department read the Army Regulations to him, and put a Military suit on him, had fine fun, making him swear by the dictionary &c.
—Henry J. Hornbeck’s Civil War diary (47th Pennsylvania Volunteers, excerpts: 1862-Early 1864). Hornbeck was stationed in Florida, near Key West, at the time of this diary entry.
Tatsusei Yogi: June 16, 1945
We started to go to Hanja in the early morning, but later decided to go to Maezato instead. When we were passing Nagusuku there was a heavy bombing attack. So we took shelter behind a stone wall all day. Then we went to Hanja, dug a shallow hole, and slept.
—Tatsusei Yogi was a Japanese civilian in Okinawa.
- A Wartime Diary by Tatsusei Yogi, edited by Takashi Yogi
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