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Josie Underwood's Civil War Diary

Josie Underwood's Civil War Diary - Hardcover

by Josie Underwood
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Availability:In StockContributor:Josie Underwood, Nancy Disher Baird (Editor), Catherine Coke Shick (Foreword by)Publish date:2009-03-20Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KentuckyISBN-13:9780813125312ISBN-10:813125316UPC:9780813125312Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Women, United StatesBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877), State & LocalSize:8.60 x 5.80 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC69GCNYBP
A well-educated, outspoken member of a politically prominent family in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Josie Underwood (1840-1923) left behind one of the few intimate accounts of the Civil War written by a southern woman sympathetic to the Union. This vivid portrayal of the early years of the war begins several months before the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861. "The Philistines are upon us," twenty-year-old Josie writes in her diary, leaving no question about the alarm she feels whe
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of KentuckyISBN-13:9780813125312ISBN-10:813125316UPC:9780813125312Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Women, United StatesBook Topic:Civil War Period (1850-1877), State & LocalSize:8.60 x 5.80 x 1.10 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC69GCNYBP

Nancy Disher Baird is the author of Healing Kentucky: Medicine in the Bluegrass State and coauthor of Western Kentucky University: The First 100 Years. From 1975 to 2010, she served as professor and special collections librarian at Western Kentucky University.


Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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Josie Underwood, Nancy Disher Baird (Editor), Catherine Coke Shick (Foreword by)

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Josie Underwood

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