Catherine Ann Edmondston (1823-1875) Diaries, PC.1100

Diaries of Mrs. Edmondston of Halifax Co., a well-educated woman, ardent southerner, daughter of Thomas Pollock Devereux, and wife of Patrick Muir Edmondston of Charleston, S.C. Entries contain description of and comment on family members; plantation life in Halifax Co.; slavery; politics before, during, and after the Civil War; events in the North and South; military action and commanders in every theater; Federal occupation of eastern North Carolina and raids into the countryside; conditions after the war; and freedmen. Published in Beth G. Crabtree and James W. Patton (eds.), "Journal of a Secesh Lady ": The Diary of Catherine Ann Devereux Edmondston, 1860-1866 (Raleigh, 1979). Volumes also contain some clippings; broadsides raising home defense unit (Feb., Oct., 1862); and copy of petition to governor concerning Rainbow Bluffs (Banks) on the Roanoke River (Nov., 1862).

Edmondston, Catherine Ann

Devereux, Thomas Pollock

Pollock Family

Edmondston Family

Edmondston, Patrick Muir

Crabtree, Beth G.

Patton, James W.

Devereux Family

United States. Army

Confederate States of America

Plantation life

Manners and customs

Slavery

Politics

Politics, Practical

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

Soldiers--United States

Pillage

Economic conditions

Military campaigns

Military maneuvers

Freedmen

African Americans

JOURNAL OF A SECESH LADY

Governors

Slaves

Defense

Recruiting

Halifax County

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Charleston (S.C.)

South

North

United States--Politics and government

Rainbow Bluffs (Banks)

Roanoke River