Title: Diary of Frances Woolfolk Wallace March 19-August 25, 1864
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.
Subjects: Diaries, Women, Army spouses, Women travelers, Social conditions, History, Description and travel, Economic conditions
Places: Kentucky, Confederate States of America, Tuskegee (Ala.), Alabama, United States
People: Frances Woolfolk Wallace (1835-), Philip Hugh Wallace (active 1864)
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865