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"I wonder if the new year is to bring us new miseries and
sufferings," seventeen-year-old Emma LeConte wrote in her diary on
December 31, 1864. In fact, the worst was yet to come. Her later
entries portray the city of Columbia, South Carolina, like much of
the South, under the grip of Sherman's army. No reader of this
diary is likely to forget the defiant, well-bred Emma, who
describes a family's anxieties and brave attempts to get on with
life while the Civil War rages around them. In a new foreword to
the Bison Books edition, Anne Firor Scott, a professor of history
at Duke University whose writings include The Southern Lady: From
Pedestal to Politics, 1830-1930, rounds out the story of the
remarkable Emma LeConte and the life she made after her familiar
world ended.
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