A Confederate lady comes of age
Subtitle: the journal of Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward, 1863-1888
By: edited by Mary D. Robertson.
Contributors: Robertson, Mary D.
Series: Women's diaries and letters of the nineteenth-century South
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press; Brand: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Columbia, S.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Heyward, Pauline DeCaradeuc, 1843-1914 -- Diaries.; Women -- South Carolina -- Diaries.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-153) and index.