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Article: Diary reveals tribulations of Civil War.
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- Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, NE)
- Article date:
- April 22, 2007
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Byline: Rick Ruggles
Apr. 22--The Civil War was far more and much less than its great battles.
It was marching hungry and sick for miles in muck. It was pillaging houses for food. It was cold, literally and figuratively. A new Civil War diary about the 1st Nebraska Volunteers makes those things clear. The diary is made richer by the fact that it was written by a German immigrant who had been in the United States only a few years before volunteering in Grand Island for the Union Army in the fall of 1862. The writer, August Scherneckau, never saw a major battle. But he was shot by friendly fire, and he fired shots in the Ozarks at guerrilla ...
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