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Diary of Frances Woolfolk Wallace March 19-August 25, 1864

Summary: Diary, March-August 1864, kept by Frances W. Wallace during a journey to and from her home in Kentucky to visit her husband, Philip Hugh Wallace, who was a Confederate officer in Alabama; a two-month stay at Tuskegee, Ala.; and shorter stays at Nashville, Memphis, Vicksburg, Mobile, Montgomery, and other places along the route. The diary describes travel details, scarcities and destruction observed, persons Wallace met, and financial and other anxieties. Extended descriptions of life in Tuskegee, including activities of women, are included.

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  • Physical Description: electronic resource
    Electronic data (1 file : ca. 120 kilobytes).
    remote
  • Edition: Electronic edition
  • Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.

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General Note:
Copied from the original given by Robert Wisdom Wallace, Memphis, Tennessee for permanent preservation in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Text scanned (OCR) by Christie Mawhinney. Images scanned by Christie Mawhinney. Text encoded by Christie Mawhinney and Natalia Smith.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is part of the collection The Southern homefront, 1861-1865.
Title from electronic title page.
Original Version Note:
Transcribed from: Diary of Frances Woolfolk Wallace, March 19-August 25, 1864. 85 p. In the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (#3063).
Funding Information Note:
Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title.
System Details Note:
System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection; SGML viewer required for SGML files.
Subject:
Wallace, Frances Woolfolk 1835- Diaries
Wallace, Philip Hugh active 1864
Army spouses Confederate States of America Diaries
Women travelers Confederate States of America Diaries
Women Confederate States of America Diaries
Women Kentucky Diaries
Alabama History Civil War, 1861-1865
Confederate States of America Description and travel
Confederate States of America Economic conditions
Confederate States of America Social conditions
Tuskegee (Ala.) Social conditions
United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Women

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