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This fascinating work by Lt Alva C. Roach, completed and published in the year 1865, is surely one of the most descriptive of many personal journals written during the years of America's terrible Civil War. His depictions are so detailed and compelling as to make the reader feel as though we were there with him and our forefathers during his battles and two years in Rebel prisons.Lt Roach's book, though, is uncommon in another way. He declared his work unvarnished truth, and much appears so. Yet, his words ring constantly with far more, oozing a remarkable hatred and vilification toward Americans of the South. In fact, he often refers to them sneeringly as "the chivalry." Roach often proclaims Southerners as traitors, murderers, fiends, villains, and robbers...rather than as they were, devoted Americans who dearly loved this Nation and its freedoms, for which they were the major founding force.So...here is a caution. If your heritage is of Southern origin you may find Lt. Roach's condemnation quite disconcerting, even while reveling in his powerful, eyewitness-to-history description.Today, it seems no longer that "Rebels" reside just in the "South." Americans who completely fathom and believe deeply in the original words of our Constitution, and the ideas of our Founding Fathers, (opposite the prosperity-less, murderous, devastation of big government, Communist-like, control) are found in every State, in every region, in every dialect, of America. And they seem to be speaking out again...loudly...in favor of individual freedom as so many were in the years before America's Civil War.

Hidden from the wider world for 144 years, this Diary is an astonishing historic record...perhaps America's Civil War "discovery" of the century. In 1862, Alfred B. "Alf" Wade of South Bend, Indiana eagerly answered President Abraham Lincoln's call for fighting men. He enlisted not once - but in two - Indiana Infantry Regiments. He served as a 3-month soldier in the first, an infantry officer for all three years of the second. Even before leaving home, as Adjutant of the 73rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Alf Wade made up his mind to write a journal of his War years. His own words tell us the discipline of keeping up a daily entry was far from easy. In stress of War it was often that a day was missed, occasionally several. Yet the hundreds of days about which Alf wrote give us one of the most detailed accounts of daily life during America's Civil War ever to appear in American literature. Wade's descriptions of daily events, military and civilian, breathe life once again exactly as it was near a century and a half ago. A loyal, devoted Union soldier, Alf spent many months along the Tennessee River in Alabama. His notes of Southerners whom he knew (with names and dates listed) opens a startling new door to history in the Rebel towns of Athens, Decatur, Huntsville, Stevenson, Triana, Somerville, Gurley's Tank, Larkinsville, Paint Rock, Gillsport, Rome, and others, as well as Washington, D.C.