Diaries of Fannie Page Hume, 1858-1862.

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Diaries of Fannie Page Hume, 1858-1862.

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The collection contains Fannie Page Hume diaries, 1858, 1860-1862, kept at "Selma," Orange County, Va., and on visits to Washington, D.C. She describes family events; daily life; weather; health, particularly her increasing problems with head and back pain and treatment with blue mass (mercury) and morphine; illnesses and deaths; church services; religious reflections; reading; courtship and her engagement to a U.S. naval officer; social events; and slaves, particularly the fate of family slaves who have been hired out and been mistreated. After November, 1860, there are comments on political affairs; war news and rumors; women's war work; caring for the sick and wounded; refugees; and troop movements through Orange. Particular incidents include the wreck of a Confederate troop train, May 1861; presenting a flannel shirt to General Beauregard; a speech by Jefferson Davis after Manassas; entertaining officers in spring of 1862 including Paul J. Semmes and "Extra Billy" Smith; and the occupation of "Selma" by Federal troops, July-August, 1862. People mentioned include her future husband, Col. Carter Braxton; the Rev. Joseph Earnest, rector of St. Thomas; U.S. naval captain and later Confederate blockade runner John Newland Maffitt; naval officer Alexander Golden Rhind of the U.S.S. Constellation; Bishop William Meade; and Confederate surgeon Horace Dade Taliaferro.

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Hume, Fannie Page, 1838-1865

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Fannie Page Hume (1838-1865) of Selma, near Orange, Orange County, Va., was the daughter of David and Fannie (Dade) Hume. She spent her life in Orange County and Washington, D.C., marrying Colonel Carter M. Braxton in February 1865. From the guide to the Fannie Page Hume Diary, 1860-1862; 1947-1948, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...