10 Civil War Diaries
Eyewitness Diaries of War, Home Front, Politics, and Survival in Civil War AmericaBy Mary Ann Loughborough, Adam Gurowski, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Lawrence Van Alstyne, Mary Boykin Chesnut, John Beauchamp Jones, Lemuel Abijah Abbott, William Howard Russell, Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan, Susan R. Jervey, Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, Eliza Frances Andrews
Length146h 4m
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10 Civil War Diaries assembles intimate records of the American Civil War, tracing how military conflict entered homes, cities, plantations, hospitals, and routes of displacement. The selections range from compressed daily notation and reflective observation to political commentary and vivid scenes of scarcity, grief, religious conviction, and endurance. Especially striking are accounts of besieged communities and the shifting moral language through which civilians interpret war. Together, these documents place private writing at the center of Civil War literary culture, where immediacy and retrospection continually meet. The contributors include women and men writing from distinct regional, social, and national positions, including Southern civilians, Union-minded observers, and transatlantic witnesses. Their diaries illuminate the intersections of domestic life, public ideology, gendered experience, and wartime journalism. As a collective, these voices belong to the broader documentary culture of the nineteenth century: a culture shaped by reform, sectional crisis, print circulation, and the effort to preserve daily experience amid historical rupture. Their differences enrich rather than resolve the volume's portrait of conflict. Recommended for students, historians, and general readers, this volume offers an exceptional opportunity to compare perspectives within a single archival frame. Its varied styles and assumptions invite close reading, while the dialogue among the diaries reveals the Civil War as both a national event and a succession of intensely personal encounters.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length146 hrs 4 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
110 Civil War Diaries
2INTRODUCTION The Author and Her Book
3I. CHARLESTON, S. C. November 8, 1860 - December 27, 1860
4II. MONTGOMERY, ALA. February 19, 1861 - March 11, 1861
5III. CHARLESTON, S. C. March 26, 1861 - April 15, 1861
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6IV. CAMDEN, S. C. April 20, 1861 - April 23, 1861
7V. MONTGOMERY, ALA. April 27, 1861 - May 20, 1861
8VI. CHARLESTON, S. C. May 25, 1861 - June 24, 1861
9VII. RICHMOND, VA. June 27, 1861 - July 4, 1861
10VIII. FAUQUIER WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, VA. July 6, 1861 - July 11, 1861
11IX. RICHMOND, VA. July 13, 1861 - September 2, 1861
12X. CAMDEN, S. C. September 9, 1861-September 19, 1861
13XI. COLUMBIA, S. C. February 20, 1862 - July 21, 1862 (pt. 1)
14XI. COLUMBIA, S. C. February 20, 1862 - July 21, 1862 (pt. 2)
15XII. FLAT ROCK, N. C. August 1,1862 - August 8,1862
16XIII. PORTLAND, ALA. July 8, 1863 - July 30, 1863
17XIV. RICHMOND, VA. August 10, 1863 - September 7. 1863
18XV. CAMDEN, S. C. September 10, 1863 - November 5, 1863
19XVI. RICHMOND, VA. November 28,1863 - April 11,1864
20XVII. CAMDEN, S. C. May 8,1864 - June 1,1864
21XVIII. COLUMBIA, S. C. July 6,1864 - January 17,1865
22XIX. LINCOLNTON, N. C. February 16,1865 - March 15,1865
23XX. CHESTER, S. C. March 21, 1865 - May 1, 1865
24XXI. CAMDEN, S. C. May 2,1865 - August 2, 1865
25The Diary of Adam Gurowski: March 4, 1861 - October 18, 1863
26PREFACE
27MARCH, 1861
28APRIL, 1861
29MAY, 1861
30JUNE, 1861
31JULY, 1861
32AUGUST, 1861
33SEPTEMBER, 1861
34OCTOBER, 1861
35NOVEMBER, 1861
36DECEMBER, 1861
37JANUARY, 1862
38FEBRUARY, 1862
39MARCH, 1862
40APRIL, 1862
41MAY, 1862
42JUNE, 1862
43JULY, 1862
44AUGUST, 1862
45SEPTEMBER, 1862
46OCTOBER, 1862
47NOVEMBER, 1862
48NOVEMBER, 1862
49DECEMBER, 1862
50JANUARY, 1863
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