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Dear Daniel Kotzin, thank you very much for your very interesting poster presentation! These war diaries are really captivating sources! Where are these archives kept? Have many been kept? How did you find them? I also wonder if you found the correspondence between James Fowler and Isabell. Was the practice of correspondence common during the Civil War? Your study of the diaries made me think about the First World War – that I study in my Ph.D. Indeed, I think that comparisons could be very interesting because the practices look similar but the soldiers’ diaries during WWI seem very different from the ones you presented. Finally, I found really interesting the way you showed that the diary and the use of accounts enabled the agency of James Fowler! Thank you!
Thank your for a great presentation – it was really interesting to see the actual sources, too, and how you interpret them. I would be curious to know, in which way Orin and James possibly expressed fear and distress in the diaries – or are such direct expressions absent? I was also thinking of Susan J. Matt’s book “Homesickness: An American History,” which has a great deal about the Civil War. Thank you very much!
Ville Kivimäki
9.3.2021 20:52