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Part of General Grant's Army of the Potomac surrenders. David and his comrades are captured. At Danville Prison, David discovers that more soldiers die from smallpox and dysentery than in battle. He helplessly witnesses men reach their highest levels of depredation. The prisoners survive on fouled rations.
The prison lacks heat. The crowded conditions force them to step over one another. Without latrine privileges, the floor where they sleep is covered with their own bodily waste. David's diary entries become his will to live.
Part One of this novel is "The Story. A Chain of Thunder. The Face of Heaven. Those Damned Black Hats!
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Will at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Three Days in Gettysburg: Home Of The Brave. On the Road to Glory. Echoes from the Boys of Company 'H'. Washington politicians and generals believe that the Civil War will end in one hundred days. Once he arrives at camp, he is already longing for home. Only the mail keeps him in touch with his beloved family and dear friends. His odyssey will be long and perilous. He carries with him a diary, which will become his shield and sword. After training, he and his company march off to the Wilderness in Virginia, the same battleground his cousin, Charles Allen, is fighting in but on the Confederacy's side.
David Longenecker's diary of has been in my possession for almost a halfcentury. Previous to that, it lay in an old train caboose jammed with whatnots and thig-ama-jigs, sitting on a farm in Indiana. I transcribed it over thirty years ago, but all my notes were either misplaced or lost. Nearly a year ago, I decided to transcribe David's diary once again. I felt compelled to tell his story.
David was wounded twice-first in the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia and again at the Battle of Monocacy Junction in Maryland where he was captured and eventually marched to and incarcerated in a southern prison, a converted tobacco house, located in Danville, Virginia. People have bartered for goods and services since the beginning of human history. Much of the information I share in this book is not new. I hope, however, that I have presented it in a simple manner, one that will be a new perspective on a very old profession.
Information that can increase your knowledge and sharpen your selling skill is well worth the effort it takes to find. If you genuinely like talking and listening to people and believe your product fulfills a need in the marketplace, you are more than halfway down the road to success. Another important characteristic goes by many names. Some people call it common sense, or horse sense, or even mother wit.
No, cancel Yes, report it Thanks! Civil War Diary of Chauncey N. At Kobo, we try to ensure that published reviews do not contain rude or profane language, spoilers, or any of our reviewer's personal information. Jim marked it as to-read May 14, Next to them, Mister Longacher, their schoolmaster, would be standing straight and rigid, a clean-shaven Abe Lincoln minus his top hat, the deep-set eyes below his bushy brows probably angled toward the Kepler sisters. On the Road to Glory.
In life, as well as sales, your common sense guides you to make the right decisions. But common sense makes sense only if you have the right information to guide you. Being tricked or taken for a ride can be frivolous or harmful, depending on whether you lose money or your sanity.
If you lose money, then I'm quite sure that your sanity will follow. When individuals are made to look a fool, many emotions surface: When you are taken advantage of by a sales "rep," it takes awhile to get rid of the bad taste it leaves in your mouth. Of course, the resentment you feel towards the salesperson usually increases in direct relationship to how much money or humiliation it cost you.
For example, if a person happens to be a millionaire, losing a hundred dollars does not have the same effect as someone who is struggling to make ends meet.
That hundred could represent badly needed food, clothing, or shelter. On the other hand, if an individual has more than sufficient funds, the loss of one hundred dollars could be the same as losing a few pennies. A dairy farmer is losing his wife, sons, and all his property.
David's diary--Sunday, November 20, give a man all the comforts in the world and deprive him of his liberty & what is he?--a poor miserable being. Cry Uncle, Sumbody has 4 ratings and 2 reviews. David said: This novel is a must for history buffs. It is a union soldier's diary with the author's expan.
His boyhood friend, a doctor, pushes himself on the dairy farmer's pregnant wife. The doctor enjoys inflicting pain. Another schoolmate, a sheriff, becomes entangled in a murder at an insane asylum. Washington politicians and generals believe that the Civil War will end in one hundred days. Once he arrives at camp, he is already longing for home. Only the mail keeps him in touch with his beloved family and dear friends.
His odyssey will be long and perilous. He carries with him a diary, which will become his shield and sword. After training, he and his company march off to the Wilderness in Virginia, the same battleground his cousin, Charles Allen, is fighting in but on the Confederacy's side. David is wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness.