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R. H. Wessel was a journalism student attending the university of Nebraska when he heard the call "Remember the Maine." He responded to President McKinley's call to war by joining the first regiment of Nebraska Volunteers, Co. F.
"Private Wessel - Nebraska Volunteers" is one young man's story from enlistment to his return home. It is told in his own words through his letters, and the journal and photo album he kept during his military training in San Francisco and the war in the Philippines.
This is a rare look into a soldiers life in 1898 and 1899, as personal accounts of this time are nearly non-existent.
"The Journals of Annie Scow"
Annie Lees Scow was born in 1858 and lived 95 years. She traveled west in 1870, at the age of 12, with her parents to homestead in the new state of Nebraska. Annie loved family history, her own hand-written records containing family birth dates back to the 1750s.
During her lifetime, she kept many journals and diaries, documenting the lives of a pioneer family. This book contains her accounts of both "The Great Blizzard of 1888" and "The Great Grasshopper Invasion," as well as letters to family members telling of daily life on the farm.
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"Private
Wessel - Nebraska Volunteers"