Women of the Civil War South

About this book

This book presents excerpts from diaries and letters written by Southern women from different perspectives and areas of the country. Mary White, a fifteen-year-old girl, attempted to get through the blockade in Wilmington, North Carolina; Josie LeConte witnessed the burning of Columbia, South Carolina; Nancy Jones lived in fear amid the violence that rocked Mossouri and saw her family and close friends murdered and her young son taken prisoner by the Yankees; Sarah Dandridge Duval and her family were refugees near Richmond. The book includes reminiscences from Union and Confederate women living in Winchester, Virginia, a town that reportedly changed hands 76 times during the war.