Edited by Beth G. Crabtree and James W. Patton

Civil War diary of Catherine Edmondston, wife of a prominent planter in Halifax County, North Carolina. Reveals family, class, and sectional ties, while providing an intimate glimpse of plantation life, women's responsibilities, and home-front conditions during the war.

The volume's dust jacket features the only known likeness of Kate Edmondston, discovered in 1993.

Hardbound. Pp. xxxviii, 850. Illus. Index. (4th printing, 1999) (s)