Title: A Confederate lady comes of age
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.
Subjects: Confederate Personal narratives, Diaries, History, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Women, Local history, Population & demography, Social history, Women's studies, United States, History: American, U.S. Local History - Southern States, Women In The U.S., USA, Personal narratives, Confedera, 1843-1914, Heyward, Pauline DeCaradeuc, Civil War, 1861-1865, Heyward, Pauline DeCaradeuc,, Personal narratives, Confederate, South Carolina, Southern states, history, sources, Southern states, biography
Places: South Carolina, United States
People: Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward (1843-1914)
Time periods: Civil War, 1861-1865