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The Journal of James Edmond Pease, A Civil War Union Soldier: Virginia, 1863

10 best books like The Journal of James Edmond Pease, A Civil War Union Soldier: Virginia, 1863 (Jim Murphy): Valley of the Moon: The Diary of María Rosalía de Milagros, Sonoma Valley, Alta Valley, California, 1846,, Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912, My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941, Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763, A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859, When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer, Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards, The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777, I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865, Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell

Valley of the Moon: The Diary of María Rosalía de Milagros, Sonoma Valley, Alta Valley, California, 1846,
AuthorSherry Garland
ISBN0606228101
Title of Book: Valley of the Moon

Author: Sherry Garland

Summary:
What would it be like to be a servant? Maria Rosalia has been a servant for nine years of her life and her brother Domingo is a stable boy. But they have been well treated by the Medina family and other servants who feel...
Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic, 1912
AuthorEllen Emerson White
ISBN0590962736
Of the Titanic story, I always find it most difficult to get through reading or hearing about the crew who sacrificed their lives. What amazes me most is that the band selflessly played through the entire ordeal without rushing to the lifeboats and trying to save themselves. If there was one thing I could...
My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York 1941
AuthorMary Pope Osborne
ISBN0590687158
In a diary that brings to life the dramatic happenings on the home front during World War II, Madeline Beck is living in a boardinghouse with her mother while her father is on an aircraft carrier guarding the Pacific Coast. After discovering that a German U-boat has landed near her home--a little-known,...
Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763
AuthorMary Pope Osborne
ISBN0590134620
Catharine Carey Logan and her family have enjoyed a peaceful and prosperous life as the Quakers and Delaware Indians share a mutually trusting relationship. Recently, however, this friendship has been threatened by violence against the Indians. Then, Catharine and her brother are taken captive...
A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia 1859
AuthorPatricia C. McKissack
ISBN0590259881
Day or two later
Freedom is one of the first words I teached myself to write. Down in the Quarters people pray for freedom - they sing 'bout freedom, but to keep Mas' Henley from knowin' their true feelings, they call freedom "heaven." Everybody's mind is on freedom.
But it is a word that aine never...
When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer
AuthorBeth Seidel Levine
ISBN0439439825
In April of 1917, Simone Spencer's world changes. Her beloved brother Will goes off to war, and Simone seeks a way to help. The passionate daughter of a feisty French mother and a rebellious upper-class father, Simone is not cut out for the society life she is meant to lead. So, when General Pershing calls...
Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards
AuthorKatelan Janke
ISBN0439215994
This teen wrote the events of dust bowl panhandle area Texas in her diary. It can be read in one sitting and is super simple language. She relates the weather conditions, her family's difficulties in keeping the dust out of the house (this was truly horrendous) and the crop and economics of the farmers,...
The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777
AuthorKristiana Gregory
ISBN0590226533
This is a great fictional account of the winter George Washington’s army spent in Valley Forge. I quite enjoyed it.

Warning: There are a few things that might make some readers squeamish, including the severing of limbs in wartime surgeries.

Content:
* alcohol
* profanity
*...
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865
AuthorJoyce Hansen
ISBN0439555051
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy a Freed Girl is about a young African American girl, Patsy, who lived during the time when slavery was abolished after the Civil War.

The book was okay. I can see why I was attracted to reading this series when I was younger. The whole novel is...
Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell
AuthorKristiana Gregory
ISBN0590226517
Now that we're in the North Platte River Valley the air feels dry and thin. My lips are so chapped they bleed when I talk. The only thing to do is dip our fingers in to the bucket of axle grease and rub our lips every hour or so. It smells bad, it tastes bad, and the blowing dust sticks.

It feels like we...
All the Stars in the Sky: The Santa Fe Trail Diary of Florrie Mack Ryder
AuthorMegan McDonald
ISBN0439169631
Florrie finds the adventure of a lifetime along the Santa Fe Trail, meeting new challenges and dangers, after her mother decides to move her family from Missouri to New Mexico.

Starting their journey from their home in Missouri, Florrie Ryder and her family are headed towards the promise of...
A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861
AuthorKaren Hesse
ISBN0439555353
Thursday, February 28, 1861
P. Cloudy. Wind N.W. Fresh
Mr.Lincoln has arrived at last in Washington....
In one week, he inherits the trouble of this great, unhappy country. In one week, the responsibility will be his--whether we come together again a Union,or fall entirely to pieces....
My Heart is on the Ground: the Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl, Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania, 1880
AuthorAnn Rinaldi
ISBN0590149229
Beginning in broken English, Nannie tells of her incredibly difficult first year at the school, including entries detailing her previous life as her ability to communicate in English grows. From December, 1879, to October, 1880, readers follow a remarkably resilient girl, uprooted from her home...
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