A Confederate Girl's Diary

Here we are at Dr. Nolan's plantation, with Baton Rouge lying just seven miles from us to the east. We can surely hear the cannon from here. They are all so kind to us that I ou...

Am I not glad to get another blank book! On Sunday my old one gave out, to my unspeakable distress, and I would have been _désolée_ if I had not had three or four letters to ans...

Here I am, at your service, Madame Idleness, waiting for any suggestion it may please you to put in my weary brain, as a means to pass this dull, cloudy Sunday afternoon; for th...

There is no use in trying to break off journalizing, particularly in "these trying times." It has become a necessity to me. I believe I should go off in a rapid decline if Butle...

Doomed to be bored! To-night Miriam drags me to a _soiree musicale_, and in the midst of my toilet, I sit down with bare shoulders to scratch a dozen lines in my new treasure wh...