Another Year Finds Me in Texas
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-0846-2 (ISBN)
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Lucy Pier Stevens, a twenty-one-year-old woman from Ohio, began a visit to her aunt’s family near Bellville, Texas, on Christmas Day, 1859. Little did she know how drastically her life would change on April 4, 1861, when the outbreak of the Civil War made returning home impossible. Stranded in enemy territory for the duration of the war, how would she reconcile her Northern upbringing with the Southern sentiments surrounding her?
Lucy Stevens’s diary—one of few women’s diaries from Civil War–era Texas and the only one written by a Northerner—offers a unique perspective on daily life at the fringes of America’s bloodiest conflict. An articulate, educated, and keen observer, Stevens took note seemingly of everything—the weather, illnesses, food shortages, parties, church attendance, chores, schools, childbirth, death, the family’s slaves, and political and military news. As she confided her private thoughts to her journal, she unwittingly revealed how her love for her Texas family and the Confederate soldier boys she came to care for blurred her loyalties, even as she continued to long for her home in Ohio. Showing how the ties of heritage, kinship, friendship, and community transcended the sharpest division in US history, this rare diary and Vicki Adams Tongate’s insightful historical commentary on it provide a trove of information on women’s history, Texas history, and Civil War history.
Vicki Adams Tongate spent twenty years at Southern Methodist University, teaching and researching the Lucy Pier Stevens diary. She has now retired and lives in Fort Worth, Texas.
Acknowledgements
Editorial Practices
Map of Texas
Dramatis Personae
Timeline
Introduction. Lucy: Herself, Her Family, Her Friends
Her Texas World
Her Diary
Chapter 1. January 1863
Chapter 2. February 1863
Chapter 3. March 1863
Chapter 4. April–May 1863
Chapter 5. June–July 1863
Chapter 6. August–September 1863
Chapter 7. October–December 1863
Chapter 8. January–February 1864
Chapter 9. March–April 1864
Chapter 10. May–June 1864
Chapter 11. July–September 1864
Chapter 12. October–December 1864
Chapter 13. January 1865
Chapter 14. February–March 1865
Chapter 15. April 1–16, 1865
Chapter 16. April 17–May 4, 1865
Lucy: Her World after Texas
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.02.2016 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 12 b&w photos, 1 b&w map |
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4773-0846-6 / 1477308466 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4773-0846-2 / 9781477308462 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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