Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868 / Edition 1

by John Q. Anderson

Overview

This journal records the Civil War experience experiences of sensitive, well-educated, young southern woman. Kate stone was twenty when the war began, living with her widowed mother, five brothers, and younger sister at Brokenburn, their plantation home in north-eastern Louisiana. When Grant moved against Vicksburg, the family fled before the invading armies, eventually found refuge in Texas, and finally returned to a devasted home.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900807120179
Publication date:	05/01/1995
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Q. Anderson (1916–1975) taught American literature at the University of Houston and was the author of many books, including Louisiana Swamp Doctor.

Drew Gilpin Faust is the author of six books, including This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War and Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, winner of the Francis Parkman Prize. She is President of Harvard University.

Editorial Reviews

**** Cited in BCL3. Records the experiences of a sensitive, well-educated woman living on the family plantation in Louisiana. Twenty years old when the Civil War began, she chronicled her everyday activities in detail, from books read and plantation management to keeping slaves in the antebellum period, the social mores of the era, and the fate of wartime refugees. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

A vivid and realistic picture of the Confederacy in its valor and agony, colorful as a novel but authentic history.

Book-of-the-Month Club News

The wartime journal of Kate Stone is surpassed by no other book in its picture of daily life in the besieged Confederacy.

Louis D. Rubin