Diary of Elizabeth P. Hincks, 1868, June 12 -- Dec. 12.

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Diary of Elizabeth P. Hincks, 1868, June 12 -- Dec. 12.

Mrs. Hincks commenced her diary on June 12, 1868, upon advice of General E. R. S. Canby's wife who told her that she wished she had kept a diary during her travels as an army wife. The first portion of the diary recaps the events since the Hincks' wedding till June of 1868. The remainder covers the family's trip to New York, Boston, Cambridge, Bangor, and Buckport, Me., Col. Hinck's hometown, in the summer and late fall of 1868. Mrs. Hincks recounted her daily life -- reading, sewing, shopping, paying visits, attending theater and lectures in Boston and New York, (including an exhibit of Frederick Church's Niagara). There are also accounts of a Republican meeting and parade in Bangor that featured her husband along with Daniel Sickles and James Harrison Wilson as guests of honor, public appearances and speaking engagement of Edward W. Hincks who was campaigning for Benjamin F. Butler, and the election day of 1868 in Boston. The last portion of the diary, from the late November on, describe the return to Goldsboro, passing the battlefields of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Petersburg, and the life in camp.

154 pages, 17 cm., bound volume.

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