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A Southern woman's story : life in Confederate Richmond, including unpublished letters written from the Chimborazo Hospital / by Phoebe Yates Pember ; edited by Bell Irvin Wiley.

Title: A Southern woman's story : life in Confederate Richmond, including unpublished letters written from the Chimborazo Hospital / by Phoebe Yates Pember ; edited by Bell Irvin Wiley.
Author: Pember, Phoebe Yates, 1823-1913
Publication: Wilmington, N.C. : Broadfoot Publishing Co., 1991, c1959.

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Additional Authors

Wiley, Bell Irvin, 1906-1980

Description

199 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

"A Southern woman's story gives revealing insight into many other aspects of Confederate life. The blighting effects of the twin evils of scarcity and inflation are effectively portrayed in Mrs. Pember's account of her difficulty in making a living in war-time Richmond"--Introduction.

Series Statement

Monographs, sources, and reprints in Southern history

Uniform Title

Monographs, sources, and reprints in Southern history

Subject

Genre/Form

Personal Narrative
History
Personal narratives – Confederate
History.
Personal narratives – Confederate.

Note

Reprint. Originally published: Jackson, Tenn. : McCowat-Mercer Press, 1959.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

[Pt. 1.] Entry into man's domain -- First days at Chimborazo -- First skirmish for the whiskey barrel -- "Are you married?" -- A disappointing experiment -- "What comfort could I give?" -- State consciousness and conflict in the wards -- "A groan was seldom heard" -- "The wars of the whiskey barrel continued" -- Intensification of suffering and hatred -- Visitors stay and stay, and multiply -- Richmond imperilled -- Incidents of hospital life in 1864 -- A train trip to Georgia, October, 1864 -- A tipsy surgeon sets the wrong leg -- Collapse of the Confederacy -- "There was no assimilation" of victors and vanquished -- "A woman must soar beyond the conventional" -- [pt. 2.] Letters from wartime Richmond. "Mrs. Jeff is growing very fine" -- "Among fever wards and dying men" -- "I am always in a hurry" -- "Every girl in Richmond is engaged or about to be" -- "The fighting is so near."

ISBN

0916107272 :

LCCN

^^^59014912^

OCLC

27021828

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library