Description
Presented here are excerpts from diaries and letters written by Southern ladies from different walks of life and areas of the rustic. Mary White, a 15-year-old girl, attempted to get in the course of the blockade in Wilmington, North Carolina; Nancy Jones lived in fear amid the violence that rocked Missouri and saw her close family and friends murdered and her young son taken prisoner by the Yankees; Sarah Dandridge Duval and her circle of relatives were refugees living close to Richmond, Virginia.
The book includes personal reminiscences from Union and Confederate ladies living in Winchester, Virginia, a the town that reportedly changed hands 76 times all through the war, and the reactions of Southern ladies to the give up at Appomattox.