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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Peter, Frances Dallam (1843-1864)
Titre(s) : A Union woman in Civil War Kentucky [Texte imprimé] : the diary of Frances Peter / edited by John David Smith and William Cooper, Jr.
Publication : Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, copyright 2000
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xxxiii, 222 pages) : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Revised edition of: Window on the war. c1976. - Includes bibliographical references and index
"Frances Peter was one of the eleven children of Dr. Robert Peter, a surgeon for the
Union army. The Peter family lived on Gratz Park near downtown Lexington, where nineteen-year-old
Frances began recording her impressions of the Civil War. Because of illness, she
did not often venture outside her home but was able to gather a remarkable amount
of information from friends, neighbors, and newspapers." ; "Peter's diary chronicles
Kentucky's invasion by Confederates under Gen. Braxton Bragg in 1862, Lexington's
month-long occupation by Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, and changes in attitude among the
slave 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 the hated "secesh.""
"Her writings articulate 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 blacks
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 by epileptic
seizure in August 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."--Jacket
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Smith, John David (1949-....). Éditeur scientifique
Cooper, William (1933-2005). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Kentucky (États-Unis) -- 1861-1865 (Guerre de Sécession)
Genre ou forme : Journaux intimes
Indice(s) Dewey :
976.903 (23e éd.) = Histoire - États-Unis - Kentucky - 1792-1865
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0813121442. - ISBN 9780813121444. - ISBN 9780813153735. - ISBN 0813153735
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47462063r
Notice n° :
FRBNF47462063
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