A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky (eBook)

The Diary of Frances Peter

Frances Dallam Peter (Autor)

John David Smith, William Cooper (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
258 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-5514-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Frances Dallam Peter was one of the eleven children of Union army surgeon Dr. Robert Peter. Her candid diary chronicles Kentucky's invasion by Confederates under General Braxton Bragg in 1862, Lexington's monthlong occupation by General Edmund Kirby Smith, and changes in attitude among the enslaved population following the Emancipation Proclamation. As troops from both North and South took turns holding the city, she repeatedly emphasized the rightness of the Union cause and minced no words in expressing her disdain for "e;the secesh."e; Peter articulates many concerns common to Kentucky Unionists. Though she was an ardent supporter of the war against the Confederacy, Peter also worried that Lincoln's use of authority exceeded his constitutional rights. Her own attitudes toward Black people were ambiguous, as was the case with many people in that time. Peter's descriptions of daily events in an occupied city provide valuable insights and a unique feminine perspective on an underappreciated aspect of the war. Until her death in 1864, Peter conscientiously recorded the position and deportment of both Union and Confederate soldiers, incidents at the military hospitals, and stories from the countryside. Her account of a torn and divided region is a window to the war through the gaze of a young woman of intelligence and substance.

Autor

John David Smith is the Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina–Charlotte. He is the author or editor of many books, including The Long Civil War: New Explorations of America's Enduring Conflict. William Cooper Jr. (1933–2005) was the Coordinator of Modern Political Manuscripts at King Library at the University of Kentucky. He was an instructor at the University of Kentucky, Ball State University, Seymour High School (IN), and Muncie Central High School (IN).

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Note on the Text
The Diary of Frances Peter
1862
1863
1864
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.12.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 21 b&w illustrations
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Gewicht: 295 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 13th amendment • 14th amendment • 15th Amendment • Abolition • border state • Braxton Bragg • Civil Rights • Civil War • civil war diaries and personal narratives • Confederacy • Diary • Edmund Kirby Smith • Emancipation Proclamation • enslaved people • Gratz Park • homefront memoirs • Kentucky • Lexington • Memoir • Memoirs • Occupation • Personal narrative • Racism • reconstruction • Seccession • Slavery • Union • U.S. History • Women's history
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-5514-2 / 0813155142
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-5514-2 / 9780813155142