Diary of a Union lady, 1861-1865
By: Maria Lydig Daly ; edited by Harold Earl Hammond ; introduction to the Bison books edition by Jean V. Berlin.
Contributors: Hammond, Harold Earl, 1922-
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Daly, Maria Lydig, 1824-1894 -- Diaries; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives; New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
Genres: Diaries.; Personal narratives.; Biography.
Description: "Rumor, gossip, and innuendo are the weapons of the home front; and no one wielded them with quite the aplomb of Maria Lydig Daly. Her richly detailed comments on everything from inept Union generals to Dorothea Dix's appearance provide the liveliest memoir to emerge from a Northern noncombatant. Daly was the wife of a prominent New York City judge whose connections allowed her to meet many major figures involved in Northern military and diplomatic strategy. Despite catty comments about Mrs. Lincoln and less-than-flattering appraisals of Union generalship, Daly could be sympathetic toward the suffering of the soldiers. She noted the fear with which many viewed the draft, seeing it as a terrible incursion on liberty, but she understood that the times called for severe measures."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: New York : Funk & Wagnalls, 1962.
"Bison books"--P. i.