In the tumultuous days after the close of the Civil War, a young teacher of Pennsylvania Mennonite background made his way to the city of Lynchburg to become an instructor in the Freedmen's Bureau schools. At the close of his long day's teaching, Jacob Eschbach Yoder often stole a few minutes to record his experiences in a journal. The diaries, published here for the first time, provide a remarkable glimpse of daily life in the postwar South and the personal musings of a young man coming of age in a time of great social change. His eyewitness account of the struggle for freedom is enhanced with 20 black-and-white illustrations.
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"Horst ... places Yoder in the Virginia context and also within the less familiar world ... of the Mennonites of Pennsylvania." -- Journal of Southern History
"This is a highly readable account, made all the more useful by an excellent introduction and impressive annotation..." -- Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
"This is a highly readable account, made all the more useful by an excellent introduction and impressive annotation..." -- Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
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Samuel L. Horst is professor emeritus of history at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. His publications include Mennonites in the Confederacy: A Study in Civil War Pacifism and Education for Manhood: The Education of Blacks in Virginia During the Civil War.
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