Diary, 1864-1865
Subtitle: (transcript)
By: LeConte, Emma
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: 1998
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Diaries; Women; History; Personal narratives; Social conditions; Sherman's March through the Carolinas; Confederate Personal narratives
Description: Diary of Emma LeConte while she was living in Columbia, S.C. In the diary, LeConte reflected on the Civil War and other matters and wrote about various activities and events, such as the burning of Columbia.
Notes: Title from TEI header.

The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CH digitization project, Documenting the American South, or, The Southern Experience in 19th-century America.

Transcript text typed in by Jordan Davis. Text encoded by Jordan Davis and Natalia Smith.

Text in both HTML and SGML formats.

Also available as a typed manuscript and microfilm of the manuscript in the Southern Historical Collection (#420) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Transcribed from: A journal, kept by Emma Florence LeConte, from Dec. 31, 1864 to Aug. 6, 1865, written in her seventeenth year and containing a detailed account of the burning of Columbia, by one who was an eyewitness / transcript prepared by the Historical Records Survey of the Works Progress Administration, May, 1938. 86 p. From the manuscript (#420) in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Funding from the Library of Congress and Ameritech Corporation supported the electronic publication of this title.

Mode of access: Internet World Wide Web.

System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; World Wide Web browser; Panorama for SGML files.

Emma Florence LeConte was the daughter of scientist Joseph LeConte.

Published as "When the World Ended: The Diary of Emma LeConte" (Earl Schenk Miers, ed., 1957).