An American literature class at California University of Pennsylvania recently undertook the digital transcription of a journal written by a Civil War soldier. The task required them to decipher a text that was not only faded, but written in a style of English different from what we speak today.
![World War One American soldier's diary pages, while based in the Custoza/Valeggio region of Italy, August 1918](https://hmhfyi.com/6-12/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2015/11/fyi_g11_c04_journal_link-155x93.jpg)