num_pages: 77
description: As the last surviving member of my immediate family, I am fortunate to have been given custody of this diary. Such diaries, with explicit intructions to the delegates sent by the Christian Commission to serve, comfort, supply and minister to the spiritual needs of the soldiers, were rigorously kept by all agents of the U.S. Christian Commission. My grandfather's duties in that capacity were mostly in the Union lines, but when he happened to be involved in preaching to or helping any Confederate soldiers, he did so with equal devotion. As he noted on one occasion, those who had been taken as prisoners were "unfortunately on the wrong side."
language: English
title: Civil War Diary of Louis Miller Albright
titlecomplete: Civil War Diary of Louis Miller Albright
publisher: Belding Publishing