This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wood, Talbot, Waters Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QU.2ADI/3909.1 Message Board Post: Hi Jan, Actually, the diary is better reading than I remembered, I just read vols 1 & 2 again and there really is some good stuff in there. I am mostly drawn by Capt. Wood's frequent statements about the invasion of his country, his hopes for the freedom of his country, the wish to be left in peace with his family and loved ones. He was a true believer in the cause of freedom from the Union for the states of the Confederacy and in true Southern fashion, his home state of Alabama was uppermost in his mind. There are passages which could have held their own against things Ken Burns used. I also have a copy of a letter from Bailey Talbot, brother of Wood's eventual wife, but killed, I believe at Atlanta. The letter is to his infant son and is right up there on the tearjerker level with Sullivan Ballou's letter.