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A Union woman in Civil War Kentucky : the diary of Frances Peter / edited by John David Smith and William Cooper, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peter, Frances Dallam, 1843-1864.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Kentucky--Lexington--Diaries.
- Women.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
- United States.
- Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
- Kentucky.
- Lexington (Ky.)--Biography.
- Lexington (Ky.).
- Peter, Frances Dallam, 1843-1864--Diaries.
- Peter, Frances Dallam.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Frances Peter was one of the eleven children of Dr. Robert Peter, a surgeon for the Union army. The Peter family lived on Gratz Park near downtown Lexington, where nineteen-year-old Frances began recording her impressions of the Civil War. Because of illness, she did not often venture outside her home but was able to gather a remarkable amount of information from friends, neighbors, and newspapers. Peter's candid diary chronicles Kentucky's invasion by Confederates under Gen. Braxton Bragg in 1862, Lexington's month-long occupation by Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, and changes in attitude among the
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Note on the Text; The Diary of Frances Peter; 1862; 1863; 1864; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Include index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-4811-1
- OCLC:
- 606323221
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