num_pages: 180
description: The destruction and rebuilding of southern society as witnessed from the homefront.At the age of nineteen Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward began keeping a journal in which she recorded the final years of the Civil War, including the destruction of her plantation home near Aiken, South Carolina; the hardship of the Reconstruction era; her marriage into a distinguished Charleston family; and her efforts to provide for her large family after her husband's death. A fascinating document that spans a traumatic quarter of a century, Heyward's diary offers intimate insights into the deprivation and devastation suffered by southern women during and after the Civil War.
language: English
title: A Confederate Lady Comes of Age: The Journal of Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward, 1863-1888
titlecomplete: A Confederate Lady Comes of Age: The Journal of Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward, 1863-1888
genres: Nonfiction, Civil War, History
ratings_count: 14
series: Women's Diaries and Letters of the South
publisher: University of South Carolina Press