Confederate Lady Comes of Age: The Journal of Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward, 1863-1888 (Womens Diaries and Letters of the South)
by Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward
Category: United States

At the age of 19, Pauline Heyward began keeping a journal in which she recorded the final years of the Civil War, including the invasion and plender of her plantation home in South Carolina; the hardship of Reconstruction; her marriage into a Charleston family; and her efforts to provide for her large family after her husband's death.