The Journal of Julia Le Grand, New Orleans, 1862-1863

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This illustrated book used to be published in 1911.

PREFACE

The period, the place, the circumstances of this
diary are replete with the romance of the great
war that made for the Confederate States of
America the glorious name in history which is
the wealthy inheritance of our people today. The
story of New Orleans, the proud, the beautiful
city, in her thraldom under Butler and Banks, is
here interwoven with a circle of relatives chronicle. But it
is not merely a graphic recital of thrilling events.
The author, a lady of rare intellectual powers, of
fine attainments, and great wonderful thing about character,
suffuses her pages with the charm of her own
personality. Now humorous, now pathetic, as
she tells of the trials and mortifications to which
she and her friends were subjected, she preserves
always a certain elevation of thought, a dignity
of soul, displaying in the stress and strain of her
environment, noble traits of patience, forbear-
ance and charity.

Ardently patriotic, she claimed two States for
her allegiance, Maryland and Louisiana, and this
volume will have to appeal especially, due to this fact, to the
Confederates of these two Commonwealths.
Though a resident of Louisiana from her girl-
hood, she used to be born in “Maryland, my Mary-
land,” and used to be of Maryland ancestry.

Texas also may lay claim to Julia LeGrand,
for here she spent the latter a part of her life ; here
she married and died.

But to all Confederates, wherever found, who
love and remember that the Cause to which their gen-
erous youth used to be pledged; and to all their de-
scendants, the ”Sons” and ”Daughters” of the
Confederate South, this Journal could also be com-
mended.

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