Ladies of Richmond, Confederate Capital. With an introd. by Clifford Dowdey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Katharine M. (Katharine Macbeth), 1900-1977.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Richmond (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Sources.

Richmond (Va.).

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.

United States.

Women--Virginia--Richmond.

Women.

Virginia--Richmond.

Genre:

Personal narratives

Personal narratives, Confederate.

History.

Personal narratives -- Confederate.

Sources.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

365 pages illustrations 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill [1962]

Contents:

Proem (Washington, D.C., November 8,1860

April 22, 1861. "Where will it all end?" / Margaret Sumner McLean

"Straws tell which way the wind blows" / Catherine Paton Jone Thompson

"Tremendous event" / Sara Rice Pryor

"Were circumstances ever so complicated?" / Emily Mason

"God grant they may succeed" / Margaret Sumner McLean

"I have despaired of the union" / Julia DuBose Toombs

"Madness of coercion" / Emily Mason

"Speed the parting guest" / Margaret Sumner McLean

"The saddest day of my life" / Virginia Tunstall Clay

"A final adieu" / Varina Howell Davis

"This peace convention" / Julia Gardiner Tyler

"Soldiers in every ward" / Emily Mason

"All is suspense" / Julia Gardiner Tyler

"Abraham Lincoln is here" / Margaret Sumner McLean

"The end has come" / Virginia Tunstall Clay

"We leave for Richmond" / Margaret Sumner McLean.

Pt. 1: Gay Capital (May

December 1861). "Richmond was one great camp" / Varina Howell Davis

"I can scarcely realize that we are at war" / Charlotte Cross Wigfall

"It makes the heart beat and the eyes fill" / Julia Gardiner Tyler

"I am in Richmond" / Mary Boykin Chesnut

"Our glorious victory" / Charlotte Cross Wigfall

"Cheers and shouts rent the air" / Sally Tompkins

"The trains began to bring in the wounded" / Margaret Sumner McLean

"The day the grand battle was fought" / Anita Dwyer Withers

"The lovely, joyous, hopeful days of summer" / Fannie A. Beers

"Drums beating ... banners flying / Louise Wigfall

"No one was singular in being homeless" / Catherine Cooper Hopley

"There's bound to be somethin' going on / Virginia Tunstall Clay

"Hospitable old town" / Constance Cary.

Pt. 2: Sound the alarm (January

August 1862). "The death of a confederate congressman" / Julia Gardiner Tyler

"I am called to the work" / Fannie A. Beers

"They shan't get to Richmond"

Judith Brockenbrough McGuire

"Richmond went dinnerless" / Clara Minor Lynn

"Heavy firing on the river" / Judith Brockenbrough McGuire

"The enemy's gun-boats are ascending the river" / Varina Howell Davis

"God help us" / Judith Brockenbrough McGuire

"Our president did me the honor" / Rose O'Neal Greenhow

"The roar of the guns grew louder and louder" / Elizabeth L. Van Lew

"Our success is glorious" / Charlotte Cross Wigfall

"Beautiful, yet awful!" / Judith Brockenbrough McGuire

"The hospital was filled to overflowing" / Sara Rice Pryor

"Give me the privates" / Jennie D. Harrold.

Pt. 3: The second autumn and winter (October 1862

April 1863). "The radiant image of peace" / Sallie Ann Brock Putnam

"In the secret corps" / Loreta Janeta Velazquez

"My dear friend" / Mary Boykin Chesnut

"The suffering among the poor was great" / Louise Wigfall

"The bloody battle-field so near" / Kate Mason Rowland

"A sort of court is still kept up" / Agnes

"The blockade" / Judith Brockenbrough McGuire

"Your patriotic labour" / Mary Custis Lee

"Our starving women and children" / Agnes

"My bonnet is finished" / Anita Dwyer Withers

"The girls wore homespun dresses" / Mrs. Mark Valentine

"Watch over Charley" / Sarah A. C. Gibson.

Pt. 4: Hope on, hope ever (May

December 1863). "They are within three miles of Richmond" / Mary Boykin Chesnut

"The sick and wounded are pouring in" / Kate Mason Brown

"Now what?" / Charlotte Cross Wigfall

"Hood's division passed through" / Louise Wigfall

"Wishing you much success" / Mary Custis Lee

"Remember New Orleans!" / Kate Mason Rowland

"On the day Vicksburg fell" / Anita Dwyer Withers

"Willy and John are safe" / Emma Mordecai

"The blood of the bravest and best" / Mary E. Rowland

"My mind is so full of one thing" / Mary Cantey Preston

"From Chimborazo Hospital" / Phoebe Yates Pember

"Threats" / Elizabeth L. Van Lew

"I was besieged with company" / Belle Boyd

"We bought a servant yesterday" / Anita Dwyer Withers.

Pt. 5: But Richmond was safe (January

May 1864). "Something told her he would never get back" / Judith Brockenbrough McGuire

"We go on as before" / Mary Boykin Chesnut

"Beware" / Elizabeth L. Van Lew

"Champagne is $350 a dozen" / Agnes

"109 prisoners escaped" / Elizabeth L. Van Lew

"I could not reconcile the two Ulrics" / Varina Howell Davis

"The battle raid interferes" / Virginia Nicholas Sanders

"The city might be shelled" / Clara Minor Lynn

"We went to church" / Anita Dwyer Withers

"My precious husband left me" / Virginia Tunstall Clay

"I feel very uneasy" / Angela Moreno Mallory

"Oh, the yearning for deliverance" / Elizabeth L. Van Lew

"I am not rebellious" / Varina Howell Davis.

Pt. 6: Cloud of Sorrow (June

December 15, 1864). "The safest place in the confederacy" / Sallie Ann Brock Putnam

"This abode of misery" / Eliza Middleton Huger Smith

"Camp Winder Hospital" / Emma Mordecai

"Hospital scenes" / Emily Mason

"The band on the square played" / Kate Mason Rowland

"They carried him to Hollywood" / Cornelia Peake McDonald

No. 707 Franklin Street" / Sally Nelson Robins.

Pt. 7: Never cry for quarter (December 16, 1864

April 2, 1865). "The tree was a lovely holly" / Alice West Allen

"Christmas in the Confederate White House" / Varina Howell Davis

"For a name and for a ring" / Sallie Ann Brock Putnam

"Sometimes we were hungry" / Nellie Grey

"I must thank you both" / Mary Custis Lee

"The one topic of conversation is eating" / Mrs. William A. Simmons

"What does all this mean?" / Agnes

"Pray that as my day is, so may my strength be" / Varina Howell Davis

"Richmond is to be evacuated" / Mrs. William S. Simmons

"The direful tidings" / Sallie Ann Brock Putnam

"I was the only lady" / Anna Helen Holmes Trenholm.

Pt. 8: The enemy come (April 2

May 1865). "To my horror" / Fannie Walker Miller

"Oh, army of my country!" / Elizabeth L. Van Lew

"The victorious army" / Nathalie

"We covered our faces and cried" / Nellie Grey

"The grewsome story" / Agnes

"The city under martial law" / Jennie D. Harrold

"Dearer than ever, in its captivity and ruin" / Judith Brockenbrough McGuire

"I never dreamed of the yankees getting to Richmond" / Emmie Sublett

"A grief which was terrible" / Mary A. Fontaine

"Such fright, anxiety and dread" / Anita Dwyer Withers

"Our president a captive" / Sallie Ann Brock Putnam

"Despise the shame" / Mary Custis Lee.

Postlude: They faced the future (May 1865

December 1870). "I shall not repine" / Agnes

"To look on our desolated country and be strong" / Mary Boykin Chesnut

"I shall not fall" / Sara Rice Pryor

"I, Varina Davis" / Varina Howell Davis

"Such acts of atrocity" / Mary Custis Lee

"Yankee rule" / Isabel Maury

"My husband is my world" / Virginia Tunstall Clay

"I went to Fort Lafayette" / Angela Moreno Mallory

"I did not walk about the city" / Mary Elizabeth Randolph

"Their is nothing like one's 'ain countrie'" / Louise Wigfall

"The glorious old times of the confederacy" / Mary Custis Lee

"The south's dear General Lee"

Julia Gardiner Tyler

"For him I do not now weep" / Mary Custis Lee.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Jones, Katharine M. (Katharine Macbeth), 1900-1977. Ladies of Richmond, Confederate Capital.

OCLC:

1309521