Bibliograph

Josie Underwood's Civil War diary, edited by Nancy Disher Baird ; foreword by Catherine Coke Shick

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Label

Josie Underwood's Civil War diary, edited by Nancy Disher Baird ; foreword by Catherine Coke Shick

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-251) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

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mapsplatesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Josie Underwood's Civil War diary

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

318456348

Responsibility statement

edited by Nancy Disher Baird ; foreword by Catherine Coke Shick

Summary

At the outset of the Civil War, Josie Underwood was the educated, outspoken daughter of a politically prominent family in Bowling Green, Kentucky. She left behind a unique, intimate account of the early years of the war, one of the few from a Kentucky woman sympathetic to the Union. "The Philistines are upon us," twenty-year-old Josie writes in her diary, leaving no question about the alarm she feels when Confederate soldiers occupy her once-peaceful town. Available for the first time in print, Josie Underwood's Civil War Diary offers a vivid, firsthand account of a family that owned slaves an

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