The Uncompromising Diary of Sallie McNeill, 1858-1867 (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University)

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In this annotated diary, Sallie McNeill chronicles thoughts, observations, and details of her day-to-day life all through the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.
 
This remarkably well-preserved document tells McNeill’s story from her days as a student within the female department of Baylor College at Independence until her death in 1867.
 
McNeill’s story—common to the era and place and still intensely personal—we could readers glimpse the numbing expectations of a young woman’s right kind behavior, moral referencing of the ones living under the influence of the second one Great Awakening, intellectual questions posed by the education of the day, and the way of living of the planter class on the margins of its geographical succeed in.
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