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2010.
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English
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Stott's diary reveals a soldier who was also a scholar in camp and on the march, one who took every available moment to read theology, philosophy, great literary works, and a few novels. He also had a playful side, slyly exposing a dry wit and a sense of humor that can sneak up on the reader.
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English
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This fascinating journal of Kate Cumming, one of the first women to offer her services for the care of the South's wounded soldiers of the bloody Civil War, represents a detailed record of her activities and thoughts as a nurse. Spanning the time she was assigned to her first post in Okolona, Mississippi in April 186, working under Doctor S. H. Stout, a progressive military physician committed to the employment of women in hospitals, until May 29,...
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English
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Includes 32 color photos taken by the author during the month he was embedded with the 82nd in Kuwait and Iraq.
This is a riveting account of the war in Iraq moving north with the 82nd Airborne. Units of the 82nd depart Kuwait and convoy to Iraq's Tallil Air Base en route to night-and-day battles within the major city of Samawah and its intact bridges across the Euphrates. Boots on the Ground quickly becomes an action-filled microcosm of the new...
5) Rocky Boyer's war: an unvarnished history of the air blitz that won the war in the Southwest Pacific
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English
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"Based in part on an unauthorized diary kept by the author's father, 1st Lt. Roscoe "Rocky" Boyer, this narrative history offers the reader an account of Allied air commander Gen. George Kenney's "air blitz" offensive in the Southwest Pacific. At airfields on the front line, Rocky kept the radios working for the 71st Tactical Reconnaissance Group, a fighter-bomber unit. The author uses Rocky's story as a jumping-off point from which to understand...
7) Campaigning with the 67th Indiana 1864: an annotated diary of service in the Department of the Gulf
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Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
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Regimental histories of the American Civil War volume IA15
Pub. Date
1916.
Language
English
13) James Riley Weaver's Civil War: the diary of a Union cavalry officer and prisoner of war, 1863-1865
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This is an annotated edition of the diary of Union cavalry officer James Riley Weaver. Weaver wrote every day from June 1, 1863, to April 1, 1865, creating an unbroken 666-day record of his military engagements in the Union cavalry, almost seventeen months in seven Confederate officers' prisons, and return to civilian life. The depth of detail, clear prose, emotional restraint, and dissection of human nature under duress provide an unparalleled eyewitness...
19) A soldier's diary: autobiography of a soldier serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corps World War II
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Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Regimental histories of the American Civil War volume MI24
Genealogy and local history volume LH18448
Genealogy and local history volume LH18448
Pub. Date
[1905]
Language
English
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