War Diaries (March 26) (nonfiction)
War Diary entries for March 26
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Van Buren Oldham: March 26, 1864
Some boys who have tried to get a transfer from our company to a K[entucky] regiment under an act of Congress allowing transfers from regiments of other states to regiments of the state of which the applicant was a citizen. The transfer was disapproved by the Capt[ain] to the Gen[eral] com[manding], the Col[onel] giving as a reason that the applicants had as many friends here as [when such other promises were broken].
—Martin Van Buren Oldham, Company G, 9th Tennessee Infantry ("The Hickory Blues") (diary)
- https://www.utm.edu/departments/special_collections/E579.5%20Oldham/text/vboldham_1864.php
- https://www.utm.edu/departments/special_collections/E579.5%20Oldham/text/vboldham_indx.php
Éva Heyman: March 26, 1944
Durng the German occupation of Hungary:
Dear diary, until now I didn’t want to write about this in you because I tried to put it out of my mind, but ever since the Germans are here, all I think about is Márta. She was also just a girl, and still the Germans killed her. But I don’t want them to kill me!
- The Diary of Éva Heyman - Éva was 13 years old when she started writing her diary on February 13, 1944, and she continued writing until May 30, 1944 – three days before she was deported to Auschwitz. Éva was murdered in Auschwitz on October 17, 1944. Éva’s mother Agnes Zsolt, who survived the Holocaust, found the diary in Nagyvárad in 1945.
Alfred Robinson: March 26, 1900
Flying the yellow flag as we have cases of Scarlet and Typhoid fever aboard. Lay off shore all day. Not allowed into harbour.
- Diary of Alfred Robinson - Alfred Robinson served with British forces - Durham Light Infantry (DLI), Kitchener’s Fighting Scouts (KFS), and the Corps of Cattle Rangers - in South Africa during the Second Boer War. This is a transcript of the hand written dairies he kept during his service with the DLI and KFS. He left no written account of his time as a Cattle Ranger.
George Beck: March 26, 1944
Eighteen English officers escaped in French clothes, report come through that prisoners must be watched. Today martial law came into effect in this area, extra police are patrolling the streets. Bombs have been thrown out of train windows and bridges blown up also a factory. No letter cards so cannot write to wife.
—George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)
Tatsusei Yogi: March 26, 1945
We finally reached Ginowan at midnight and stayed with Mr. Nakandakari. We were all exhausted and said nothing, but wept. We could hear bombing noises coming from the direction of Oyama. I should have sent the family to Japan earlier; I feel very sorry for them.
—Tatsusei Yogi, civilian (diary)
