Refugitta of Richmond : the wartime recollections, grave and gay, of Constance Cary Harrison /
Author / Creator: | Harrison, Burton, Mrs., 1843-1920. |
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Imprint: | Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c2011. |
Description: | xviii, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8378401 |
Summary: | 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, has been lost to all but the most diligent researcher. In Refugitta of Richmond , Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. and S. Kittrell Rushing resurrect Harrison's work, reintroducing an especially insightful perspective on the Southern high command, the home front, and the Confederate elite. |
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Item Description: | Originally published under title: Recollections grave and gay. New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. |
Physical Description: | xviii, 251 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781572337473 1572337478 |