| Author/Contributor(s): | Robertson, Mary D |
| Publisher: | University of South Carolina Press |
| Date: | 10/31/1997 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
The destruction and rebuilding of southern society as witnessed from the homefront
At the age of nineteen Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward began keeping a journal in which she recorded the final years of the Civil War, including the destruction of her plantation home near Aiken, South Carolina; the hardship of the Reconstruction era; her marriage into a distinguished Charleston family; and her efforts to provide for her large family after her husband's death. A fascinating document that spans a traumatic quarter of a century, Heyward's diary offers intimate insights into the deprivation and devastation suffered by southern women during and after the Civil War.