Hi Carl, Unfortunately, I don't believe Batavia does have an historical society anymore, but I'm SURE that the Richmond Memorial Library would LOVE a copy, as well as the County Historian and the Genesee Area Genealogists....to name a few!! I'm sure if you contacted: Betty Thomas at bettyt@lycos.com she would probably be MORE than willing to post a copy to the Genesee County GenWeb Archive site! Good luck! Joan In a message dated 9/29/2002 6:54:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, lifzgood2us@yahoo.com writes: > Hello fellow listers, > > My family inherited a civil war diary from a John L. > Foster of Batavia N.Y. He was a coronet player in the > 14th N.Y.S.V. band from 1861-1862. It has daily > entries of his company and the various battles they > were in. Some of the more interesting entries deal > with the raiding of Gen. Lees House, Seeing the > Monitor, returning Abe Lincolns hat that had blown off > in a gust, Spy balloons overhead, Bailey Croosroads, > Fairfax Court House,Gen "McLellan", and many Batavia > names such as H. Dingman, Tutle Fosey(?), D. Nash, > Mrs. Tomlinson, Mrs. Wright, A.W.Gardener and others. > While I dont have the actual book I do have a copy of > it and have transcribed it as best I can. > I would like some input on the best place to post this > transcription. Is there a Batavia Historical Society? > Any thoughts? > Thanks soooooo much in advance, > Carl