This book is based on the 1863 1864 Diaries of Sergeant Henry Harrison Brabham, Company H, 77th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. It has all the remaining pages of the diaries, plus a dialog describing the events as they lead up to the capture and occupation of Little Rock, Arkansas. The official roster, deployment, major battles and other information on the men who were volunteers of Company H, 77th Ohio are included. Historical data is interspersed in with the diary pages to coincide with the action. Many of these men were brothers, brother-in-laws, cousins, even in some cases fathers who picked up and left their homes, farms and businesses to heed the call to arms to preserve the unity of their country. This is the story of one mans journey through this bloody period of history as he cared for his brothers and the men who served under him. This book also contains genealogy information and family history on the surname Brabham and the service of these men for both the blue and the gray during "this foul rebellion".
About the Author: Rebecca A. Kerr received her Associates Degree in Commercial Art from The Metropolitan Technical Community College at Elkhorn, NE, in 1984. She went on to work in newspaper advertising, retail advertising, in keylining, as a layout design artist, and a commercial photographer at Pamida, Inc. She has worked as an illustrator, graphic designer and visual information specialist at the VA Hospital in Omaha, NE. After moving to New Mexico in 1997, she and Zeno Keene were co-owners and editors of "The Messenger" a county newspaper, located out of Alma, NM. She later moved to Fort Morgan, Colorado and was the Family Living Editor of the Fort Morgan Times in Ft. Morgan, CO. She is now retired and lives in Silver City, New Mexico, showing her art work at the Copper Quail Gallery. This book has been an ongoing project for several years. As the great-granddaughter of Henry H. Brabham, she grew up hearing stories of the families history. When the diaries were taken from an old trunk after her grandmother died, her aunts began the task of transcribing them. In later years Ms. Kerr had the time to take an interest in researching her family history and recording it. She decided the information in the diaries needed to be shared with the world so it was not forgotten in a trunk or put behind glass in a museum. So she took over the task of preparing the information to be printed and shared for family and educational purposes. It has been an on and off again project but it is finally finished. Motivation to finish the book sooner rather than later lies in the fact her aunt is now 101 years old and her mother is now 94 tears old. It is her hope that maybe the time is right to take a look back at the bloody time of revolt in our country, and learn from it so we do not repeat the errors of the past. There is a great divide forming in this country politically between the right and the left, let us bear in mind the consequences of so great a divide so our rivers do not run red with the blood of our brothers and sisters, our country folk, as it once did during the bloody rebellion of the Civil War.