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portada The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams: A Southern Woman's Story of Rebellion and Reconstruction, 1863-1890
Type
Physical Book
Language
English
Pages
416
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9x15.2x2.5 cm
Weight
0.61 kg.
ISBN13
9781621900382
Edition No.
0003

The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams: A Southern Woman's Story of Rebellion and Reconstruction, 1863-1890

Uffelman, Minoa D. ; Kanervo, Ellen ; Williams, Eleanor (Author) · Univ Tennessee Press · Paperback

The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams: A Southern Woman's Story of Rebellion and Reconstruction, 1863-1890 - Uffelman, Minoa D. ; Kanervo, Ellen ; Williams, Eleanor

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Synopsis "The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams: A Southern Woman's Story of Rebellion and Reconstruction, 1863-1890"

In 1863, while living in Clarksville, Tennessee, Martha Ann Haskins, known to friendsand family as Nannie, began a diary. The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams: A SouthernWoman's Story of Rebellion and Reconstruction, 1863-1890 provides valuable insights intothe conditions in occupied Middle Tennessee. A young, elite Confederate sympathizer, Nannie was on the cusp of adulthood with the expectation of becoming a mistress ina slaveholding society. The war ended this prospect, and her life was forever changed.Though this is the first time the diaries have been published in full, they are well knownamong Civil War scholars, and a voice-over from the wartime diary was used repeatedlyin Ken Burns's famous PBS program The Civil War. Sixteen-year-old Nannie had to come to terms with Union occupation very early inthe war. Amid school assignments, young friendship, social events, worries about hermarital prospects, and tension with her mother, Nannie's entries also mixed informationabout battles, neighbors wounded in combat, U.S. Colored troops, and lawlessness in thesurrounding countryside. Providing rare detail about daily life in an occupied city, Nannie'sdiary poignantly recounts how she and those around her continued to fight long afterthe war was over--not in battles, but to maintain their lives in a war-torn community. Though numerous women's Civil War diaries exist, Nannie's is unique in that she alsorecounts her postwar life and the unexpected financial struggles she and her family experiencedin the post-Reconstruction South. Nannie's diary may record only one woman'sexperience, but she represents a generation of young women born into a society basedon slavery but who faced mature adulthood in an entirely new world of decreasing farmvalues, increasing industrialization, and young women entering the workforce. Civil Warscholars and students alike will learn much from this firsthand account of coming-of-ageduring the Civil War. Minoa D. Uffelman is an associate professor of history at Austin Peay State University.Ellen Kanervo is professor emerita of communications at Austin Peay State University.Phyllis Smith is retired from the U.S. Army and currently teaches high school science inMontgomery County, Tennessee. Eleanor Williams is the Montgomery County, Tennessee, historian.

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