Civil War Pocket Journals

[mwpannell]

“This is a pretty picture. here I am sitting before a guard fire writing at midnight with my knee for a desk and all around the fire are sleeping guards … it is not time to wright.”

 

Cheap pocket journals for the common person became hugely popular during the U.S. Civil War and played a significant role in what we know about it. It played a bigger role at the time in connecting people and entertaining lonely soldiers of the day. Sort of the iPhone of the 1800s, in a much slower, maybe more glorious way.

 

Thought some might be interesting in this blog on it.

 

 

[kiavonne]

A very interesting read about a piece of history. Thank you.

[MisterBoll]

Great article. Thank you.

[lumberjak]

Very interesting, I allways prefer reading about history from the people who lived the events Vs. what the newspapers wrote.

[85AKbN]

Fascinating.

[vinper]

Wonderful! Thank you for sharing this interesting link. vinper

[Earthdawn]

Very cool find...

 

Thanks for sharing that with us.

[bitterwonder]

We have one somewhere arounfd here.

[DanF]

Thanks for posting - a good read.

 

dan

[Tinjapan]

Thanks for sharing, great info.

[betweenthelens]

Thank you for this. Fascinating.

[robynsnest]

wonderful article!

[Sasha Royale]

Wonderful !

An unprecidented portion of rank and file soldiers were literate. Camp life was boring.

They wrote in their journals. There was a vast written record the war. I wonder how

much of it has survived. It was a truly tragic war. The soldiers of both sides were there

for noble causes. The technology for killing infantry had out-paced all defensive

technology and tactics.

[jpolaski]

What a great read. Thanks for sharing it!

[flyshot]

I enjoy Civil War history. Thank you for sharing such an interesting article.