SUCH ARE THE TRIALS - THE CIVIL WAR DIARIES OF JACOB GANTZ  by Gantz, Jacob, ed by Kathleen Davis

Iowa State Press, Ames, Iowa, 1991, first US edition, hard bound in dust jacket, 6x9, FINE/FINE CONDITION, (small spot of wear on dj corner), xiv, 122 pages, illus, notes, bibliog., index............................................... Such Are the Trials: The Civil War Diaries of Jacob Gantz is a look into the lives of two people—an Iowa cavalryman and his great-great grand daughter, Kathleen Davis, a Texan who spent over thirty years of her life unaware of her ties to the North. When Gantz's diaries were found, Davis was forced to face "the disquieting revelation . . . that he wrote them wearing blue—not gray."As Davis embarks on a search for her heritage, she reads about Gantz's journeys through the South with the Fourth Iowa Cavalry. Her research takes her to Iowa and the tomb of her ancestor, where she acknowledges her roots. "He went to his grave proudly proclaiming his military involvement in the Union army; I went away from his grave proudly claiming my great-great-grandfather," writes Davis.