The Centum Diary: One Year in the Life of a Civil War Union Soldier, Freeman Woodman, As Presented in the Geneva Republican from January to December 1963

The Centum Diary captures the remarkable firsthand account of Freeman Woodman, a Union soldier with the 52nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry, as he served through the pivotal year of 1863 during the American Civil War.

Compiled exactly one hundred years later by his great-granddaughter, Gail Merrick Lee (now Gail Merrick (Murphy) Granger), and completed by her son, editor Montgomery J. Granger, this book reproduces the original newspaper series from The Geneva Republican that brought Freeman's w...