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A Union Soldier in the Land of the Vanquished
TheDiary of Sergeant Mathew Woodruff, June-December, 1865
Mathew Woodruff
University of Alabama Press, 1969
"Mathew Woodruff was a frontiersman by adoption, [and] as a sergeant in the 21st Missouri Infantry, he participated in all the major campaigns of the western theater.  In June 1865, following a furlough home, this veteran of twenty-two rejoined his regiment for occupational duty along the Gulf coast of  Mississippi and Alabama. The journal spans the remaining period of 1865 only, yet it is a unique and revealing chronicle of life in the victorious federal forces."  Civil War History 

"The brief daily entries, with all the misspellings and grammatical mistakes, present an insight into the frustrations and pleasures of a peacetime soldier.  There are a wide range of topics covered:  Woodruff's duties as first sergeant, discipline problems, hunting and fishing trips and social activities.  Beyond the soldier's immediate experience, the reader gets an outsider's view of a southern city during reconstruction."  Alabama Historical Quarterly
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The Use of Land and Water Resources in the Past and Present Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
Anne V. T. Kirkby
University of Michigan Press, 1973
In the first volume of a series on Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca, Anne V. T. Kirkby investigated the agricultural production in the valley. With land-use data gathered at the time of her study (the 1960s), she created population and distribution models to help archaeologists interpret prehistoric settlement patterns in the region.
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