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Diaries and Letters from Home


World War I: Diaries and Memoirs - Library of Congress

... diaries stand as unmediated records of the war ... Quoting a comrade, he writes that “letters from home are like the heavens breaking through depressing clouds.

Communication: Letters & Diaries | The War | Ken Burns - PBS

... letters from home, “mail was indispensable,” one infantryman remembered. “It motivated us. We couldn't have won the war without it.” The mail, whenever it ...

Diaries, Bound Collections, and Albums - From the Home Front and ...

Karen Mart-Taverna copied and bound the letters of her husband Larry Mart, Sergeant, U.S. Army, 1st Battalion, 5th Infantry, 25th Division. She included the ...

Antietam: Letters and Diaries of Soldiers and Civilians

I love to dream of home it seems so much like really being there. I dreamed that I was passing Hibbards house and saw you and Lud. in the window ...

Letters To Loved Ones In The First World War | Imperial War Museums

Letters written on the home front to family and friends are today a fascinating source of information about everyday life in wartime Britain. We hold around ...

Letters from the First World War, part one - The National Archives

Do you get a sense of what these soldiers miss from home? Is this unsurprising/shocking? Describe conditions for those in the trenches on Western Front. What ...

In Their Own Words | National Museum of African American History ...

For African Americans serving in a segregated military, writing in diaries and sending letters ... letter from home. Gift from the ...

Letters Home and Diaries Kept - 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers

The Forty-Seventh, we are the crew, To raise the Stripes—Red, White, and Blue. McClellan*, now, who takes command, Will lead us down to Dixie's land. ... Plainly ...

Tag: letters from home - Diary of a World War I Donut Girl

A wonderful day. Mail came. A letter from May, Capt., Geo. Robert Carmickle, and Adgie. Col. Barker came and was glad he had Capt. Re and Miss Bannerlas, a Red ...

WW2 Era Diary and Letter Written by U.S. Soldier Who was Killed 6 ...

Tucked into one of the pages was a letter, which based on the date, i believe it may have been the last letter he ever sent home. This diary and ...

Soldiers' Diaries and Letters - Essential Civil War Curriculum

... letters from home.” Soldiers with the means to do so could purchase more formal stationery, some of which included illustrations of famous commanders ...

Ancestor Diaries, Letters, and Artifacts | American Battlefield Trust

Civil War soldiers wrote millions of letters home to loved ones. They spent hundreds of hours pouring over diaries, as they chronicled one ...

Diaries and Letters from Soldiers | Encyclopedia.com

Many Confederate soldiers expressed equally heartfelt feelings about the importance of duty and honor. In one letter home, a Georgia native gently rebuked his ...

The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries | Alexander Street

... Home · Products · Collections; The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries. The American Civil War Research Database. The American Civil War: Letters and ...

Korean War Letters 1951-1952 by Kenneth Zill.

After a short furlough home in Michigan, Ken flies to San Francisco to await transport to Hokkaido, Japan. He is stationed in Japan from June 1951-Nov.1951.

Making Home, Writing Home: Letters, Diaries, and Self-Fashioning

Letters and diaries present unique challenges for historians. Self-censorship, self-aggrandizement, omissions, and exaggerations pepper their pages.

History: Letters & Diaries - Library Guides - University of Washington

... home front. However keep in mind that, like all sources, letters and diaries follow the convention of their times and must be considered in ...

Falvey Library Exhibits :: Letters, Diaries and Autobiographies

War has always upended women's lives; left at the home front to care for their families and returning soldiers in a society where all of the ...

Soldiers' Diaries and Letters - Civil War Resources in Duke's David ...

... home. George Newton Wise Diary, 1861-1863. Confederate soldier, member of the 17th Virginia Regiment; from Alexandria (Arlington Co.), Va. Diary ...

Diaries & Letters - Tennessee Virtual Archive

The range of topics include: a record of the weather for future planting cycles, letters home to family from a prisoner of war camp during the Civil War ...