Searching for women's diaries

[CWLady]

Hi Folks,
I am currently reading a very good journal written by a young lady named Sarah Morgan who grew up in Baton Rouge during the Civil War. I love the book and how detailed it is, but can't use all of it because I'm from New Jersey. However, it gave me a wonderful view of the Civil War's effects on the homefront, which is what interests me more. I want to read more like it, and if anyone knows of any diaries written by women from the North (even better, NJ) I'd love to know! I'm attending Rutgers in the fall, so if any of them happen to be stored there, it'll make it that much easier.
By the way, the journal I speak of is called "Sarah Morgan. A Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman" edited by Charles East. (As stated in the introduction, he took very few liberties in editing it.) I got mine at Barnes and Noble.
Rebecca Smith

[col90]

Re: Searching for women's diaries

[/QUOTE] I want to read more like it, and if anyone knows of any diaries written by women from the North (even better, NJ) I'd love to know! I'm attending Rutgers in the fall, so if any of them happen to be stored there, it'll make it that much easier.
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If you will go to my website http://www.geocities.com/col90/civilwar.html and look under primary sources, you will find several sites listed that will give on online diaries. In addition, http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas/...cwdiaries.html will list locations of diaries. If you are going to Rutgers, simply go to their special collections online site and do some searching to see if any diaries are listed: http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul...cua/scua.shtml
Also, go to NUCMC's home page http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/nucmc.html
go to "Searching the OCLC catalog", then choose the "simple search form", type in "civil war diary" (you can also include states if you wish") and you will find listings of holdings all over the country, with a little info included....if there is an online link to the diary, the URL will be there also.

Hope that helps.

Colleen Formby
AGSAS

[celtfiddler]

Re: Searching for women's diaries

I've found quite a few by going to BarnesandNoble.com and typing in Civil War Women Journal and by carefully scanning the shelves at National Park Service Bookstores.

One that you may want to borrow from the library is Cornelia Hancock's (she's a civil war nurse). The one I'm reading now is interesting "Too Young to Travel Abroad: Journal of a Year of European Travel in 1856-7" by Agnes Woolsey. Her father was president of Yale at the time she went to Europe with her Uncle and his family.

[MrsArmstrong]

Re: Searching for women's diaries

The Women and the Civil War web site has a long list of books

http://womenandthecivilwar.org/

Susan Armstrong