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The fourth and final part of Hilton's letter to his daughters. This journal starts in September 1934 as Hilton returns to the mainland United States and then jumps to his service in the Philippines during World War II and his time as a prisoner of…

The first section of the journal kept by James Aiken details his account as a Union prisoner of war. He recounts the journey from Virginia to Johnson's Island, Ohio where he was imprisoned. The journal also contains lists of soldiers and their…

William Bendt was born in Charleston, South Carolina in 1920. As a teenager, he withdrew from Murray Vocational High School to work at the White Swan laundry. He began working at the Naval Shipyard as a classified laborer when he was eighteen years…