The Diary of Serepta Jordan - A Southern Woman's Struggle with War and Family, 1857-1864

"Serepta Jordan ... kept her diary from 1857 to 1864. She is a lively writer whose insights into New Providence and Clarksville, Tennessee, in the years before and during the Civil War provide a fine-grained feel for Middle Tennessee daily life and culture. Wartime and the fall of Fort Donelson meant an early end of Confederate rule in her area, and she relates the hardships suffered by citizens cut off from what they considered their country. Not particularly given to romanticism, Jordan provides generally clear-eyed observations about the failures of the Confederate army, and her extreme hatred for upper-class people in Clarksville makes her voice unique indeed"--

About the author

MINOA D. UFFELMAN is a professor of history at Austin Peay State University.
ELLEN KANERVO is professor emeritus of mass communications at Austin Peay State University.
PHYLLIS SMITH is retired from the US Army and is the historian of Mt. Olive Cemetery Historical Preservation Society in Clarksville, Tennessee.
ELEANOR WILLIAMS is the Montgomery County historian.

Summary

Discovered in a smokehouse in the mid-1980s, the diary of Serepta Jordan provides a unique window into the lives of Confederates living in occupied territory in upper middle Tennessee. A massive tome, written in a sturdy store ledger, the diary records every day from the fall of 1857 to June 1864.

Product details

• Authors: Ellen Williamson Kanervo, Minoa Uffelman, Eleanor S Williams, Eleanor S. Williams
• Publisher: University Of Tennessee Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781621905455
• ISBN: 978-1-62190-545-5
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 229 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 726 g
• Series: Voices of the Civil War
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; zweite Hälfte 19. Jahrhundert (1850 bis 1899 n. Chr.), Amerikanische Geschichte, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, USA Süden, South Atlantic States, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), History - Military / War, HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)