Mike Goad — A major part of my approach to the war is to present observations made in letters, journals, and diaries by people living the war and its impacts. My hope is that this will often result in our being able to “see” the progress of events from a variety of perspectives.
In most instances, I will be including all of what was included in the published versions of their writings, no matter how mundane. Some will have entries for almost every day while, with others, there will be long lapses without writing.
I have a large number of posts already scheduled for future publication in “Daily Observations from The Civil War,” including material from the following writers:
Dora Richards Miller, "War Diary of a Union Woman in the South"
Mary Boykin Chesnut, "A Diary From Dixie"
Lincoln Administration Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Wells, "Diary of Gideon Welles"
Susan Bradford Eppes, "Through Some Eventful Years"
Horatio King, Postmaster General at the end of the Buchanan administration
Catherine Cowles Richards, "Village Life in America 1852 - 1872"
The Woolseys of New York, "Letters of a Family During the War for the Union"
DNC Chairman August Belmont, "A Few Letters and Speeches of the Late Civil War"
John Beuchamp Jones, "A Rebel War Clerk's Diaray at the Confederate States Capital." (Image is from 1845 political cartoon)
