Robert's Senior Project- 11

So now I am working on my final set of documents, the collection of diary entries from throughout the Civil War. They are: the 1863, 1864, and 1865 diaries of John Watkins, and the 1864 diary of Michael Houck. Michael Houck is the relative of my sponsor, Chris Whipple. These entries are short, just a few sentences every day about what happened that day, but they are still useful because they are a day by day account of the 19th OVA in the Civil War. There is not much new information to be found in these documents, so what I am doing is comparing what is said in the entries to the 1878 book by Tracie. These are two different accounts of what happened, one written on the day and the other written years later, so it is understandable that there are some discrepancies. So for there is nothing major, only that Tracie appears to have gotten some dates mixed up, but it is still good to know if there are any differences. Unfortunately, due to time, it looks like I won't be able to get through everything, but I will do what I can.