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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791983003321

Autore

Harrison Burton, Mrs., <1843-1920.>

Titolo

Refugitta of Richmond [[electronic resource] ] : the wartime recollections, grave and gay, of Constance Cary Harrison / / edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. and S. Kittrell Rushing

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-09860-1

9786613098603

1-57233-792-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HughesNathaniel Cheairs

RushingS. Kittrell

HarrisonBurton, Mrs.,  <1843-1920.>

Disciplina

973.7/82

Soggetti

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives, Confederate

Virginia History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives, Confederate

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Women

Virginia History Civil War, 1861-1865 Women

Richmond (Va.) History Civil War, 1861-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published under title: Recollections grave and gay. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgment; Introduction; Refugitta of Richmond; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Chapter 11; Epilogue; Appendix: Burton Norvell Harrison; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the expansive canon of Civil War memoirs, relatively few accounts  from women exist. Among the most engaging and informative of these rare  female perspectives is Constance Cary Harrison's Recollections Grave and Gay,  a lively, first-person account of the collapse of the Confederacy by  the wife of President Jefferson Davis's private secretary. Although  equal in literary merit to the well-known and widely available diaries  of Mary Boykin Chesnut and Eliza Frances



Andrews, Harrison's memoir  failed to remain in print after its original publication in 1916 and, as  a result,