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Title: Diary of a Southern refugee during the war.Author: Judith W
McGuirePublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on
Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin
Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets,
serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their
discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original
accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward
expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native
Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin
Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western
hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores
of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of
the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North,
Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection
highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture,
contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides
access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons,
political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation,
literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality
digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand,
making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent
scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled
from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of
this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping
to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04416400CollectionID:
CTRG03-B655PublicationDate: 18670101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Diary covers the period May 4, 1861, through May 4,
1865.Collation: 360 p.; 19 cm
"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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