Josie Underwood's Civil War diary

The Resource Josie Underwood's Civil War diary
Label
Josie Underwood's Civil War diary
Statement of responsibility
edited by Nancy Disher Baird ; foreword by Catherine Coke Shick
Creator
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
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
Biography type
contains biographical information
Cataloging source
N$T
Dewey number
976.9/7403092
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • plates
Index
index present
LC call number
F459.B7
LC item number
U53 2009eb
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
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