Diary of Frances Woolfolk Wallace March 19-August 25, 1864
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Diaries; Women; Army spouses; Women travelers; Social conditions; History; Description and travel; Economic conditions
Other titles: A trip to Dixie, diary of Mrs. Fanny Woolfolk Wallace; Diary, March 19-August 25, 1864; Southern homefront, 1861-1865.
Work titles: Diary
Description: Diary, March-August 1864, kept by Frances W. Wallace during a journey to and from her home in Kentucky to visit her husband, Philip Hugh Wallace, who was a Confederate officer in Alabama; a two-month stay at Tuskegee, Ala.; and shorter stays at Nashville, Memphis, Vicksburg, Mobile, Montgomery, and other places along the route. The diary describes travel details, scarcities and destruction observed, persons Wallace met, and financial and other anxieties. Extended descriptions of life in Tuskegee, including activities of women, are included.
Notes: Title from electronic title page.

Copied from the original given by Robert Wisdom Wallace, Memphis, Tennessee for permanent preservation in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is part of the collection The Southern homefront, 1861-1865.

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Transcribed from: Diary of Frances Woolfolk Wallace, March 19-August 25, 1864. 85 p. In the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (#3063).

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