Diary, 1864 July-1865 May.

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Diary, 1864 July-1865 May.

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Unbound diary describing several months preceding and following end of Civil War, relating illness of her sister, Cornelia; departure from their home in New York City for South Carolina on board the steamer, Arago; death of her sister on board ship near the coast of Hilton Head Island, S.C., on Christmas day, 1864; arrival at Charleston harbor and passing through the Union blockade; details of crossing enemy lines on land, with an escort by Union soldiers, including African American troops, and meeting with Confederate soldiers; travel from Charleston with her sister's body, through Columbia, S.C., to Ridgeway (Fairfield County, S.C.), and burial of her sister. Later entries discuss rumors of Sherman's arrival, and her account of 21 Feb. 1865, the day Union soldiers filled her family home and removed meat, livestock and valuables; the diary concludes with her return trip through the burned ruins of Columbia, S.C., a difficult journey to the coast, food shortages in Charleston, meeting former slaves who had worked for her family, and her arrival in New York, with the city in deep mourning for the assassination of President Lincoln. Includes transcription edited by Charles E. Thomas.

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University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Thomas, Anna Hasell, 1828-1912.

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Resident of New York, N.Y., during Civil War; native of Fairfield County, S.C.; daughter of Rev. Edward Thomas and Jane Marshall Gaillard Thomas; sister of gynecologist Theodore Gaillard Thomas, M.D. From the description of Diary, 1864 July-1865 May. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 276297737 ...

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Thomas, Cornelia Gaillard, b. ca. 1830-1864

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Thomas, Charles Edward, 1903-

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...