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Diary of a Southern Refugee during the War, by a Lady of Virginia (Paperback)
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Diary of a Southern Refugee during the War, by a Lady of Virginia (Paperback)
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"War seems inevitable," wrote Judith W. McGuire in her diary on 10
May 1861, shortly after the firing on Fort Sumter. Fervently loyal
to the South, she was packing up valuables at her home in
Alexandria, Virginia, where the Confederate flag already waved.
With her family she fled the city, and for the next four years she
would be a refugee in her own land. Literate and newsy, shrewdly
detailed and extremely moving, Diary of a Southern Refugee during
the War is one of the best civilian records of the Civil War.
Judith McGuire, the wife of an Episcopal minister, follows the
newspapers assiduously, taking heart from good reports out of Bull
Run and Shiloh and fighting despair when the tide turns against the
Rebels. She sews for the soldiers, nurses them in hospitals, and
notes the deaths of friends in battle: "Thus we bury, one by one,
the dearest, the brightest." Steeling herself, she sees humor in
desperate situations. McGuire shares common hardships, struggling
to obtain food and lodging, but her position permits a glimpse of
wartime Richmond society and meetings with General and Mrs. Robert
E. Lee. Always up and doing, scorning slackers and defeatists, she
confides to her diary on a dark day, "I wish I could sleep until
the war is over." Introducing this edition is Jean V. Berlin, the
editor of A Confederate Nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot,
1860-1863.
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