War-Time Sketches: Historical And Otherwise - Softcover

Dimitry, Adelaide Stuart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1480148407 ISBN 13: 9781480148406

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

Published in 1911, this is a collection of Confederate Civil War stories written by Adelaide Dimitry, who was a cousin of Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart and the historian for the Stonewall Jackson Chapter of New Orleans, United Daughters of the Confederacy. Also touches on reconstruction.

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About the Author

Adelaide Stuart was born in 1843 in Pike County, Mississippi to Oscar J.E. and Sarah (Hardaman) Stuart. Her father, of noble Virginia lineage, had relocated to central Mississippi after his marriage in 1837, and began a successful law practice in the town of Summit. In 1859, Adelaide and her sister Annie were sent to Saint Mary's Hall, a private school in Burlington, New Jersey, but they returned to Mississippi when the war began in 1861. Her older brothers, James and Oscar, enlisted in the 18th Regiment Mississippi Volunteers; James was later killed in 1862 at the Battle of Manassas Junction, and Oscar was killed in 1863 at Marye's Heights. After the war, Adelaide worked as a school teacher, and in 1871, she married John Bull Smith Dimitry, a former Louisiana Confederate soldier who had been wounded at Shiloh and thereafter served in the Confederate Post Office Department. Adelaide served as Historian of the Stonewall Jackson Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in New Orleans from 1909 until her death in 1911.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1480148407
• ISBN 13: 9781480148406
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 102