Cobb's ordeal
Subtitle: the diaries of a Virginia farmer, 1842-1872
By: edited by Daniel W. Crofts.
Contributors: Crofts, Daniel W.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
Subjects: Cobb, Daniel W., 1811-1872 -- Diaries.; Farmers -- Virginia -- Southampton County -- Diaries.; Slaveholders -- Virginia -- Southampton County -- Diaries.; Agriculture -- Virginia -- Southampton County -- History -- 19th century.; Southampton County (Va.) -- Biography.; Virginia -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.
Description: Daniel W. Cobb, a farmer and small slaveholder from Virginia's rural tidewater, was unhappily married, resentful of his prosperous in-laws, and terribly lonely. His closest friend was the diary he kept for more than thirty momentous years in American history, from 1842 until his death at age sixty-one in 1872.

The devout, plainspoken Cobb wrote in a conversational style, candidly recording his innermost thoughts. His diary's intimate account of a troubled marriage provides a painfully frank chronicle of incompatibility. The diary also illuminates the tremendous impact of the Civil War and emancipation. Offering Insight into a culture, a time, and a place, Cobb's Ordeal reveals the differences that separate that world from our own.
Notes: Includes index.