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Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868 (Library of Southern Civilization) (1955)

by Kate Stone, Kate Stone (Author)

Other authors: John Q. Anderson (Editor)

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This journal records the Civil War experiences of a sensitive, well-educated, young southern woman. Kate Stone was twenty when the war began, living with her widowed mother, five brothers, and younger sister at Brokenburn, their plantation home in northeastern Louisiana. When Grant moved against Vicksburg, the family fled before the invading armies, eventually found refuge in Texas, and finally returned to a devastated home. Kate began her journal in May, 1861, and made regular entries up to November, 1865. She included briefer sketches in 1867 and 1868. In chronicling her everyday activities,… (more)
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Fabulous diary. Fabulous.
She comes across as real because she is real. This is history--real history, not the stuff they tell us was going on, but what WAS going on. There is no vast political movement or meaning that you extract from the War in this view. It simply is the War as one young lady lived it. ( )
  AnneSteph | Nov 14, 2013 |
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Stone, KateAuthormain authorall editionsconfirmed
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This journal records the Civil War experiences of a sensitive, well-educated, young southern woman. Kate Stone was twenty when the war began, living with her widowed mother, five brothers, and younger sister at Brokenburn, their plantation home in northeastern Louisiana. When Grant moved against Vicksburg, the family fled before the invading armies, eventually found refuge in Texas, and finally returned to a devastated home. Kate began her journal in May, 1861, and made regular entries up to November, 1865. She included briefer sketches in 1867 and 1868. In chronicling her everyday activities,

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