I am new here, but I teach US History and I am a Civil War buff. My website, www.civilwardiary.net , contains my great-grandfather's Civil War Diary for all to read.
Thank you very much for the diary link. Diaries are my love...
Welcome to the site, I hope you enjoy it.
__________________ Few take the trouble to understand or to view the American scene with perspective. And we Americans love to find ourselves guilty of something. However, it is never I who am guilty, but those other Americans, the past or present government or the other political party. Americans almost never find other countries guilty. It is always ourselves or our fancied influence in other countries. Louis L'amour
Belated thanks for the link, Freddy. I downloaded it and forgot to welcome you to the best dang CW board on the planet.
Ole
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
What a magnificent keepsake for you! Thanks very much for sharing. I hope our folks that glanced at it noticed that it continues (the links work well) all the way to war's end in 1865. Truly a remarkable piece of history. Welcome aboard!
__________________ Ancestors in US Army: 13th TN Cav; 10th TN Cav; 3rd NC Inf
Ancestors in CSA Army: 48th VA; 63rd VA, 5th NC Cav; 37th NC
Wife and Grandson's CSA: 15th AL, 51st GA, 41st TN; 36th TN; GA Mil 1197 Dist
Welcome to the board and thanks for sharing your ancestor's diary with us. What a wonderful read it was for me!
Now get out here and start mixing it up with the rest of us!
Sincerely,
Unionblue
__________________ "The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery." Frederick Douglass
"Loyalty to our ancestors does not include loyalty to their mistakes." George Santayana
Glad you folks enjoyed it. Thank you to larry for mentioning the links at the bottom of each section that will take you to the next section of the diary. Someday, I will put 6 or so of the only surviving letters he wrote home to his three sisters and brother. He had written hundreds and it would have been wonderful if they all had survived.
Freddy, I had ancestors who fought in the Pequot war up in your neighborhood. Probably not even Ole and Sam remember that one. I'm doing something similar to your quest following two ancestors in a 1,500 mile loop through the south from southwestern Virginia to north Georgia to Tennessee to Alabama to Mississippi back to Alabama to Georgia to South Carolina and on to Bentonville, NC before returning home, a 1,500 mile loop. After five years, I'm still missing a few segments. The civil war takes a while!
__________________ Ancestors in US Army: 13th TN Cav; 10th TN Cav; 3rd NC Inf
Ancestors in CSA Army: 48th VA; 63rd VA, 5th NC Cav; 37th NC
Wife and Grandson's CSA: 15th AL, 51st GA, 41st TN; 36th TN; GA Mil 1197 Dist
Okay. Pulling the old Pequot gambit, huh? My ancestors were not from the British Isles, and I can't tell you how much that pleases me. We did, for a while play football with them. They were the ball. Ever wonder why the Brit is pale, blue-eyed and fair-haired? Hmm. No Larry, grey and pot-bellied doesn't count. My ggfather was short, ugly, and "powerful of limb." He didn't kill my gfather, which does someone credit. Four daughters in a row and then 3 sons, one of whom died in '63, probably from whooping cough or diptheria. His name was Guttorm. He was three years old.
Don't know where that came from. I'm just rambling. Special greetings to you, sir, and to the children for this festive season. God bless.
__________________ I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing that no man desires for himself. A. Lincoln
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Hi I Am Freddy, 
Ever wonder why the Brit is pale, blue-eyed and fair-haired? Hmm. No Larry, grey and pot-bellied doesn't count. My ggfather was short, ugly, and "powerful of limb." He didn't kill my gfather, which does someone credit. Four daughters in a row and then 3 sons, one of whom died in '63, probably from whooping cough or diptheria. His name was Guttorm. He was three years old.
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