Diary of a Yankee EngineerOn September 8, 1962, John H. Westervelt enlisted as a private into the 1st New York Volunteer Engineer Corps. That same year, he shipped out of New York on the "Star of the South" to South Carolina to fight for the North in the Civil War. The following April, he began a journal for his 13 year old son Frazee so that his child could know of his experiences in the war. Sixty two years later, John Westervelts journal 68 entries written on tattered,