War Diaries (August 19) (nonfiction)
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Benjamin Gilbert: August 19, 1779
In the afternoon the Brigade paraded for Alarm but weir Dismist again. At Night I got a pass to peeks kill Hollow and Six Serjst Belonging to the Brigade went to John Drakes and had a Civill frolick and plenty of Groog and a number of Young Ladies.
—Benjamin Gilbert, soldier (diary)
- Benjamin Gilbert @ historyisfun.org
Helen Dore Boylston: August 19, 1918
There are compensations, after all.
Tonight, about nine o’clock, Betty Lazenby and I borrowed bicycles and rode down through the village and around by the beach road. A little half-moon was just slipping up over the sand-dunes, and in its faint light our little village looked like a dainty little gingerbread town. Beyond the village the mist was rising from the fields and drifting into the tiny stretch of woods beyond. The air smelled of autumn, cool, and with that sweet, damp, earthy smell, mingled with whiffs of peat smoke. At the end of the road the dunes lay black against the sky, but with a touch of gold along their edges. One felt that beyond that ridge of dunes lay the outermost rim of the world, the place where dreams are born.
We went on until we heard the sea roaring and three giant searchlights flashed out across the sky. Then we turned and went home again through the mists.
Nothing is too much to bear when the world remains like this through it all.
- Diary of Helen Dore Boylston - Boylston served in France with the first Harvard Unit, a U.S. medical team that treated more casualties than any other group of American doctors and nurses during the conflict. In 1927, she published Sister: The War Diary of a Nurse, an account of her experiences in the field.
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- Benjamin Gilbert @ historyisfun.org
