[PDF] A Lost Heroine Of The Confederacy eBook

Author : William Galbraith
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 35,78 MB
Release : 2009-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604733938

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In an era that glorified Southern womanhood, especially the women who contributed significantly to the Confederate cause, the of this fascinating book, until now, somehow has been largely forgotten. These are the papers that survived her, and they detail the life and deeds of Belle Edmondson (1840-1873), a heroine of the Confederacy. This collection consists of her diaries for 1863 and 1864 and the letters she received between 1861 and 1864. They document her active role behind the scenes in the Civil War and reveal her to have been a courier, a gatherer of intelligence, and a smuggler of contraband in behalf of Southern troops in West Tennessee. Of all the correspondence, the most valuable letters are those from one "Captain Henderson." These request copies of Northern newspapers, as well as Belle's reports on enemy activities in Memphis, details about local skirmishes and conditions in the camps, and her reports of activities on nearby battle fronts. These are letters of a very literate writer with a flair for recording immediate detail. Though Belle Edmondson was praised for her valuable services as a Florence Nightingale of the war and was told that her good deeds would last "while our country stands," with the end of the war she was forgotten. She dies in 1873, shortly after announcing her engagement to a Colonel H., who perhaps was a Yankee. A Lost Heroine of the Confederacy brings Belle Edmondson back to life and points to the deeds of a Southern woman who chose an active role in the cause she served.

Author : Katharine Macbeth Jones
Publisher :
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 29,84 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : 9780831766764

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Through the use of diaries and letters, this book tells what ordinary women in Confederate States were doing at home during the Civil War. There is great detail about what rural farm women were doing as well as plantation dwellers.

Author : Florence J. O'Connor
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 2013-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781314882537

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Author : Katharine M. Jones
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 2018-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780353227613

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Author : Florence J. O'connor
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 2016-11-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781334391170

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Excerpt from The Heroine of the Confederacy, or Truth and Justice Every reader of history is fully aware that much of the material which guides the opinion of posterity is derived from memoirs, the writers of which little fancied they would ever see publicity, and from private letters, penned in all the confidence of friendship. Necessarily there must be much in the every-day life of a people which escapes the chronicler, however acute. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.