A Maryland bride in the Deep South : the Civil War diary of Priscilla Bond
"In 1858, nineteen-year-old Priscilla "Mittie" Munnikhuysen began a new diary that saw her marry, leave her family in the genteel Protestant seaboard culture of Chesapeake Bay, and take up residence with her wealthy husband, Howard Bond, in the frontier plantation society of Catholic south Louisiana. By 1865, Priscilla Bond had witnessed trials and disillusionments enough to fill a two-volume journal: her father-in-law's brutality toward his slaves; her husband's alleged ambush of Union soldiers and subsequent flight from home; the retaliatory burning of the family's sugar plantation in Houma; and the losses, horrors, and daily depredations of war."
Print Book, English, ©2006
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, ©2006
Biography
xxi, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780807131435, 0807131431
61453861
"Friends home and love, all are mine" : 21 May 1858-10 April 1859
"Religion in affliction" : 1 May 1859-25 August 1859
"Can I do a wife's duty?" : 26 August 1859-31 May 1860
"I have released him" : 1 June 1860-9 November 1860
"The greatest trial of my life" : 12 November 1860-2 April 1861
"War is upon us" : 4 July 1861-27 July 1862
"We fled our home" : 1 August 1862-18 September 1863
"Abbeville independence" : 19 September 1863-17 January 1864
"Life almost seems like a burden" : 19 January 1864-31 May 1864
"This suspense is dreadful!" : 1 June 1864-7 July 1865