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Sisters Adeline (1864-1934) and Julia Graham (1862-1900) grew up in Berrien Springs, Michigan in the 1880s and kept diaries as teenagers. Here they are, annotated to explain archaic or exotic terms and local references, along with a later diary Julia kept during the year she spent homesteading with three other young women on the Kansas frontier. On

Daniel M. Holt, a successful country doctor in the upstate village of Newport, New York, accepted the position of assistant surgeon in the 121st New York Volunteer Army in August 1862. At age 42 when he was commissioned, he was the oldest member of the staff. But his experience served him well, as his regiment participated in nearly all the major campaigns in the eastern theater of the war--Crampton's Gap before Antietam, Fredericksburg, Salem Church, the Mine Run campaign, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, the 1864 Shenandoah Valley campaign, and Appomattox.

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