War Time Sketches: Historical and Otherwise - Softcover

Dimitry, Adelaide Stewart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692322108 ISBN 13: 9780692322109

Publisher: Confederate Reprint Company, The, 2015

Synopsis

The papers collected in this small volume attempt to preserve and hand down to an interested posterity eyewitness sketches of key events in the War Between the States, largely as they occurred to women living in Mississippi and Louisiana. Subjects covered include the legendary "Battle of the Handkerchiefs" in New Orleans, the forgotten gallantry of William B. Munford, the services of Judah P. Benjamin, the ill-fated Louisiana, the trials of Reconstruction, and more.

About this title

About the Author

Adelaide Stuart was born in 1843 in Pike County, Mississippi to Oscar J.E. and Sarah (Hardaman) Stuart. Her father, of noble Virginia lineage, had relocated to central Mississippi after his marriage in 1837, and began a successful law practice in the town of Summit. In 1859, Adelaide and her sister Annie were sent to Saint Mary's Hall, a private school in Burlington, New Jersey, but they returned to Mississippi when the war began in 1861. Her older brothers, James and Oscar, enlisted in the 18th Regiment Mississippi Volunteers; James was later killed in 1862 at the Battle of Manassas Junction, and Oscar was killed in 1863 at Marye's Heights. After the war, Adelaide worked as a school teacher, and in 1871, she married John Bull Smith Dimitry, a former Louisiana Confederate soldier who had been wounded at Shiloh and thereafter served in the Confederate Post Office Department. Adelaide served as Historian of the Stonewall Jackson Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in New Orleans from 1909 until her death in 1911.

Edition details

• Publisher: Confederate Reprint Company, The
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0692322108
• ISBN 13: 9780692322109
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 150