A Virginia girl in the civil war, 1861-1865 being a record of the actual experiences of the wife of a confederate officer collected and ed. by Myrta Lockett Avary (Still Image)

A Virginia girl in the civil war, 1861-1865 being a record of the actual experiences of the wife of a confederate officer collected and ed. by Myrta Lockett Avary

Avary, Myrta Lockett, editor

x, 384 p. 20 cm

The reminiscences of a Confederate officer's wife as told to the author "over teacups...at my fireside". This book is included in Richard Barksdale Harwell’s "In Tall Cotton: The 200 Most Important Confederate Books for the Reader, Researcher and Collector" (Jenkins Publishing Co., Austin, 1978). http://stonewall.hut.ru/best_books.htm

Myrta Lockett Avary was the author of A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865 and Dixie After the War and jointly edited the 1905 edition of Mary Boykin Chestnut's A Diary from Dixie. For infromation on her papers, see:

http://scdb.swem.wm.edu/index.php?p=core/search&creatorid=1645

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate

E487 .A94 1903

New York, D. Appleton and company, 1903

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