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By Ginny McNeill Raska,Mary Lynn Gasaway Hill

ISBN-10: 1603440879

ISBN-13: 9781603440875

ISBN-10: 1623495490

ISBN-13: 9781623495497

In this annotated diary, Sallie McNeill chronicles innovations, observations, and info of her way of life through the Civil battle and Reconstruction eras.
 
This remarkably well-preserved rfile tells McNeill's tale from her days as a pupil within the lady division of Baylor collage at Independence till her dying in 1867.
 
McNeill's story—common to the period and position and nonetheless intensely personal—lets readers glimpse the numbing expectancies of a tender woman's right habit, ethical referencing of these residing below the impression of the second one nice Awakening, highbrow questions posed via the schooling of the day, and the life-style of the planter classification on the margins of its geographical reach.

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