Diary of Anita Dwyer Withers / Anita Dwyer Withers, fl. 1860-1865.
Anita Dwyer Withers, wife of a U.S. and Confederate army officer, lived at her home in San Antonio, Tex., and briefly in Washington, D.C., before the Civil War, and in Richmond, Va., during the war, before returning to Texas in 1865. The diary, 4 May 1860-18 June 1865, mainly records her life in the Confederate capital, her concerns for her husband, John (d. 1892) and children, social visits, the Catholic Church, news from battles, rumors and threats of approaching federal troops, and temporary visits away from the city.
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- Physical Description: 1 electronic resource
- Edition: Electronic edition
- Publisher: [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999.
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| General Note: | Text scanned (OCR) by Jim Crawford. Text encoded by J.G. McKim and Natalia Smith. This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South, beginnings to 1920. It is part of the collection The Southern homefront, 1861-1865. |
| Original Version Note: | Transcribed from: Diary of Anita Dwyer Withers : May 4, 1860 - June 18, 1865 ; San Antonio, Texas and Richmond, Virginia. 130 p. Given by Mrs. William Holcomb, San Antonio, Texas, for permanent preservation in the Southern Historical Collection University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina. |
| Funding Information Note: | Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title. |
| System Details Note: | System requirements: PC with modem or direct Internet connection. |
| Source of Description Note: | Title from TEI header. |
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Anita Dwyer Withers, wife of a U.S. and Confederate army officer, lived at her home in San Antonio, Tex., and briefly in Washington, D.C., before the Civil War, and in Richmond, Va., during the war, before returning to Texas in 1865. The diary, 4 May 1860-18 June 1865, mainly records her life in the Confederate capital, her concerns for her husband, John (d. 1892) and children, social visits, the Catholic Church, news from battles, rumors and threats of approaching federal troops, and temporary visits away from the city.
