Journal of Meta Morris Grimball
Subtitle: South Carolina, December 1860-February 1866
By: Grimball, Margaret Ann Meta Morris, 1810-1881
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; Social life and customs; Plantation life; Slavery; History; Military life; Sea life; Refugees; Civilian relief; Confederate Personal narratives; Confederate States of America. Army; Confederate States of America. Navy
Other titles: Journal of Meta Morris Grimball (Mrs. John Berkeley Grimball) : December 1860 - February 1866
Description: Manuscript diary, 1860-1866, of Margaret Ann ("Meta") Morris Grimball, with the greater part of the entries concentrated in 1861 and 1862. Mrs. Grimball wrote from the Grove Plantation (Colleton District, S.C.), primary Grimball residence until after the Civil War; from Charleston, where the family spent the summer months; and from Spartanburg, S.C., where they took refuge in May 1862 from anticipated Union attacks on the South Carolina coast. Topics include plantation life; slave management; the progress of the Civil War and its effects on the lives of those close to Mrs. Grimball, including the activities of her sons in the Confederate army and navy, and civilian relief efforts; sickness among the civilian and military population; the family's removal to the relative safety of Spartanburg, where they rented quarters at St. John's College; her husband's conversion from Presbyterianism to Episcopalianism; her daughters' teaching careers; and other family and community matters.
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The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CH digitization project, Documenting the American South, or, The Southern Experience in 19th-century America.

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Transcribed from: Journal of Meta Morris Grimball : South Carolina December 1860 - February 1866 (transcript) From the manuscript (#957) in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Wife of John Berkley Grimball (1800-1892), rice planter of St. Paul's Parish in the Colleton District of South Carolina, with connections to the Manigault and Lowndes families of South Carolina and to the Morris family of Morrisania, N.Y.