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I want the world right again, yet I want the Union to change their stubborn ways of anti-state rights. This is confusing. I am the enemy of myself. I mean I am defeating myself by thinking these thoughts of the Union ways and being before the Antebellum. I just dont understand my Jezebel ways right now. We havent eaten for two d ays. Tomorrow, we are supposedly getting food, but me and Michael went bumming off to a farm to see if we can catch some chickens with no luck at all. Josiah would have been a help since he is quick, but after he passed away, we did not allow ourselves to dwell on the loss. We almost got killed doing it, especially after a drill practice like the one we had today. I think that the only reason why we have these practices is to keep us busy with our minds and not worry about going insane. Also I believe that we have them so we can keep warm before we go to sleep at night. I might even take up some poetry now and then. I hope you do not mind, Journal, but it will keep this old mans brain from veering too far from the war. They might not be any good, but I need it. How to Write a Diagnostic Essay-JonathanDear Journal,December 7, 1863Being thirty-seven is not a pleasant experience I must tell you. Today I was born, but you can not really celebrate ones birth in war. Drilling is not on the top of my list of priorities for celebrating this, but when you are in the war, you can not do anything about that one. We fought another battle in Fort Sanders (Fort Loudon). Longstreet was our commander. I think he is bad luck for us. We keep losing when he is in charge. I wish Robert Lee controlled us once, then I would be certain that we would win. Will said that there were 780 men killed in that one. It is rather sad really because we lost all of Eastern Tennessee to the Union camps, while we need it more than they do. They have good food because me and Mike went to one of the dead on the other side, and they had hardtack, real coffee, and canned beef, and fresh water. We split our findings with each other and we had a feast. A lot of men were envious th at they did not think of that idea that we had, and we were filled for once. The meal worms were not as big either than that of southern Hardtack and we just dunked it in our coffee, and skimmed those critters off the top and they did not effect the taste of it. We are still in Knox County. I think we might have another battle to regain Chattanooga. I doubt that the victory will happen. Many of the men went home to their families for Christmas and they will not be back for a while. If you are enlisted in the army, the least you can do is stay until you are shot, then you can go home. That is the duty of mankind, to be loyal to your job. I have thoughts of going home, but I will never go through with it, never. It is senseless if men keep that up, we will surely lose the war and then where will we be? Slaves free, not much freedom in what we want from our government, and the North would power over us. I do not want this to happen, although I want the war to stop, I just do not want t o lose the faith in the Confederacy, or the Confederacy itself.I must rest for tomorrow is another day of waiting for a battle. -JonathanDear Journal,December 17, 1863I tried and tried to stay away from the damned hospital, but to no avail. Beans Station, although our win, my legs were blown away. No gangrene yet. I doubt that I will get it because I was one of the first to go down. General Longstreet gave us at least a good win though and not many men were killed; only 900. This win though, does not mean much except that it did not bring us into total disaster. The rest of the troops are in Russellville in for their winter quarters. I have a feeling that they will not be there long though. Michael is beside me. He was next to me when the incident happened, but was not as lucky. He is dying. His right side is all bloody. You can not recognize it. He is badly burned and there are minnie balls everywhere in his body. It is a sore sight for the eyes, and I can not look at him for too long without getting a wave of nausea. Luckily I am allowed to go home when I have enough strength. Michael can not rejoice on goi ng home. He is drifting in and out of consciousness. There is blood everywhere in this hell hole, and it makes more bad than good. Men should not die from a cold, but they do when they go to a War Hospital. Michael should not be here, he does not deserve it. He would have been better off dying in the battlefield and have more honor to his name than being stuck here trying to be revived by unknowledgeable doctors that have no clue which is left or right. I am frightened myself, whether I live or not, but poor Michael. He should just quiet the world around him, and go off to the place beyond the cotton fields. He spoke! To the days of inspiration, and peace is not the opposite of war, creativity is. La vie Confederate! And now he is silent. The hum of the other voices slowly went away, and I only heard Death that past Michaels lips. -JonathanDear Journal, December 24, 1863Back home is not what I expected either. My family left for fear of the Union occupation. They went to Texas I thi nk. That is what the Donovans said. I figured they either died or they would move because of the of the lack of letters I had. It feels as if they had forgotten about me. I didnt fathom that this would happen, even Soo forgot about her Pa, but she did. They left and they did not care. They did not care what happens to the Confederacy or even the devoted soldier. Josiah did not tell me what would happen after I would get out of the army. I do not think that he planned that far. He just wanted out, but didnt see the consequences. He did not realize that people in the Land of Cotton will forget the old times and the honorable soldier. I regret these circumstances that other men in the South have to go through this, and I wish that this love for a soldier and family would be thicker than blood. But that would have to depend on trust, and devotion, and not denying feelings that would scare most people, like my family was. I wanted to live in a free country, and believe in the person that is running the nation. What I got was being a cripple, and a country where Jeff Davis does not prove his States rights theory. This is not what I was fighting for. I do not think that is what anyone was fighting for. We, the Confederacy, wanted Peace, Love, and Justice and make our country work. Well, now I realize that those thoughts are just wishful thinking for a Southerner. The war still goes on, and life does, but I want it to be over. All what I lived for, is gone in a blast. My family left me, and I am not allowed back into the war. I am too weak to go on anymore either. The doctors gave me Valium to take. I might as well ease the pain of my heart on Christmas Eve to follow the starry night and have it guide me into heaven. I thank you for being there to help me through this. Now I must meet the honored soldiers that have fought bravely. Maybe in the Great States above, it should be the way it is meant to be. As what Michael has said, La vie Confederate!-Jonathan

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