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Skrivet av: Charles LaVine skrivet 2005-07-28, 03:24
I should give you all some idea of what the diary is about. It is the Civil War diary of a Swedish-American soldier in Company D, of the 3rd Minnesota Regiment. Company D was recruited by Hans Mattson from Swedish and Norwegian emmigrants in Minnesota. Mattson, who had been trained at the Kristinanstad's Arillery School and served in the Swedish Army before he emigrated to America, later became the regiment's commander and then became possibly the most important Swede in post Civil War politics and government in Minnesota and a principal recruiter of Swedish emigrants to Minnesota in the 1870-1880s.
Roos' diary can be of historical significance as the only day by day account of this regiment, whose claim to infamy is that it was essentially bluffed into surrender to an inferior force at Murfreesboro, by a vote of its officers. It yet went on to serve with distinction.
Charles
PS: I can probably be return for futher help as there are five or six more sections of his diary that I must translate, having done 4 todate.