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

John Q. Anderson (Editor) & Drew Gilpin Faust (Foreword)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807120170 ISBN 13: 9780807120170

Publisher: LSU Press, 1995

Synopsis

The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-68 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, Kate reveals much about a way of life that is no more: books read...

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Review:

The wartime journal of Kate Stone is surpassed by no other book in its picture of daily life in the besieged Confederacy.--Louis D. Rubin, Jr.

A vivid and realistic picture of the Confederacy in its valor and agony, colorful as a novel but authentic history.--Book-of-the-Month Club News

From the Back Cover:

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, Kate reveals much about a way of life that is no more: books read, plantation management and crops, maintaining slaves in the antebellum period, the attitude and conduct of slaves during the war, the fate of refugees, and civilian morale. Without pretense and with almost photographic clarity, she portrays the South during its darkest hours.

About this edition

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0807120170
• ISBN 13: 9780807120170
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250