War Diaries (July 30) (nonfiction)
From Gnomon Chronicles
War Diary entries for July 30.
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Diaries
Christian Hook: July 30, 1864
This pleasant morning I went out on our picket and on my reaching the post that I was to relive I put my men on post then was ordered to take them and put them on the other post but refused and was put under a rest for disobeying orders and stand a trail of cort marshal ...
Christian Hook was a Union Corporal in 151st Ohio Infantry (National Guard) during the American Civil War. The collection contains his diary of May to August 1864, including entries on camp life and a near-court martial, as well as a reunion flyer for the regiment from 1925.
Lavinia Talbot: July 30, 1917
the bombarding tremendous – shaking windows at Dover
- Diary of Lavinia Talbot - Lavinia Talbot kept a diary from her teens to old age. There were many stories of people living in the south of England during World War I hearing the sounds of heavy artillery barrages or exploding mines from the Western Front, so Lavinia was evidently one of them.
