Refugitta of Richmond: The Wartime Recollections, Grave and Gay, of Constance Cary Harrison
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.96 (895 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1572337478 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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is the author or editor of twenty books relating to the American Civil War, including The Life and Wars of Gideon J. Pillow; Brigadier General Tyree H. Kittrell Rushing, Frank McDonald Professor of History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, is the editor of Eliza Frances Andrews’s A Family Secret and Journal of a Georgia Woman, 1870–1872. Rushing also edited and annotated Judge Garnett Andrews’s Reminiscences of an Old Georgia Lawyer.. About the AuthorNathaniel Cheairs Hughes Jr. Bell, C.S.A.: Forrest’s Fighting Lieutenant; and Yale’s Confederates.
Kittrell Rushing, Frank McDonald Professor of History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, is the editor of Eliza Frances Andrews’s A Family Secret and Journal of a Georgia Woman, 1870–1872. Rushing also edited and annotated Judge Garnett Andrews’s Reminiscences of an Old Georgia Lawyer.. Bell, C.S.A.: Forrest’s Fighting Lieutenant; and Yale
a different view of the civil war I am a little biased since these are my ancestors. It was a completely different view of the civil war times than I had read before.
The pair soon became engaged and joined the inner circle of military, political, and social leaders at the Confederate White House. Among the most engaging and informative of these rare female perspectives is Constance Cary Harrison’s Recollections Grave and Gay, a lively, first-person account of the collapse of the Confederacy by the wife of President Jefferson Davis’s private secretary. Born into an old, aristocratic Virginia family in 1843, Constance Cary fled with her family from their estate near Alexandria, Virginia, to Richmond in 1862. Kittrell Rushing, Frank McDonald Professor of History at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, is the editor of Eliza Frances Andrews’s A Family Secret and Journal of a Georgia Woman, 1870–1872. Rushing also edited and annotated Judge Garnett Andrews’s Reminiscences of an Old Georgia Lawyer.