War Diaries (June 9) (nonfiction)

War Diary entries for June 9

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Isaac Lyman Taylor: June 9, 1863

Two or three wagon loads of contrabands of all ages arrive at the depot this morning. They are a portion of those captured by [Hugh J.] Kilpatrick's cavalry on their return from Gloucester. The Rebels throw a few shells at Sedgwicks troops and our batteries on this side the river. We have dress parade during the cannonade. We hear artillery firing up river.

—Isaac Lyman Taylor, Company E, First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry

Taylor kept a diary of his experiences while serving with Company E of the First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry.

The story of Kilpatrick's cavalry is related in James Moore, Kilpatrick and Our Cavalry (New York, 1865).

• http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/25/v25i04p342-361.pdf (PDF)

Tatsusei Yogi: June 9, 1945

We were surprised when the police chief told us that troops had landed at Itoman. He told us that the shack was in danger, so we left for Kiyan. We slept under the shelter of a rock to avoid the rain. The only food we had was sugar cane; the sugar we had was gone.

—Tatsusei Yogi was a Japanese civilian in Okinawa.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Contraband (American Civil War) (nonfiction) - a term commonly used in the United States military during the American Civil War to describe a new status for certain escaped slaves or those who affiliated with Union forces. In August 1861, the Union Army (and the United States Congress) determined that the US would no longer return escaped slaves who went to Union lines and classified them as "contraband of war", or captured enemy property. They used many as laborers to support Union efforts and soon began to pay them wages. The former slaves set up camps near Union forces, and the Army helped support and educate both adults and children among the refugees. Thousands of men from these camps enlisted in the United States Colored Troops when recruitment started in 1863. At war's end, more than 100 contraband camps existed in the South, including the Freedmen's Colony of Roanoke Island, where 3500 former slaves worked to develop a self-sufficient community.
• Tatsusei Yogi (nonfiction)
• Isaac L. Taylor (nonfiction)
• War (nonfiction)
• War Diaries (nonfiction)

External links

• http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/25/v25i04p342-361.pdf (PDF)
• A Wartime Diary by Tatsusei Yogi, edited by Takashi Yogi