Diary : Winchester, Virginia, 1861 July 13-1866 January 23.

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Diary : Winchester, Virginia, 1861 July 13-1866 January 23.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86172389

This diary of a southern girl, began shortly after the start of the Civil War and gives an almost daily account of the activities of Confederate and Union forces in and around Winchester, Virginia, as well as a description of daily life. There are references throughout the manuscript to families from Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia: Chrisman, Hunt, Sperry, Van Lear, and Warden; also, there are references to Sheridan's courtship of the writer's aunt, Mary Warden Sperry. Kate's aunt (Mary Warden Sperry, "Aunt Wardy" as she was called) was pursued by General Sheridan, but she felt she could not reciprocate for fear of being ostracized.

7 booklets (634 p.).

Library of Virginia

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