A Confederate Lady Comes of Age

by Heyward, Pauline Decaradeuc; Robertson, Mary D.

• ISBN13: 9781570032288
• ISBN10: 1570032289
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr

Summary

The destruction and rebuilding of southern society as witnessed from the homefront "A unique and useful source.... Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward was a strong-minded, devoted daughter of Catholicism and the Confederacy; she was also a loving and resourceful woman who overcame tragedy to care for her family". -- Journal of Southern History "An interesting portrait of an articulate woman". -- North Carolina Historical Review "A particularly vivid description of a disintegrating society". -- Georgia Historical Quarterly At the age of nineteen Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward began keeping a journal in which she recorded the final years of the Civil War, including the destruction of her plantation home near Aiken, South Carolina; the hardship of the Reconstruction era; her marriage into a distinguished Charleston family; and her efforts to provide for her large family after her husband's death. A fascinating document that spans a traumatic quarter of a century, Heyward's diary offers intimate insights into the deprivation and devastation suffered by southern women during and after the Civil War.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	ix	(2)
Series Editor's Introduction	xi	(2)
Preface	xiii	(4)
Abbreviations	xvii	(1)
DeCaradeuc and Heyward Genealogies	xviii	(1)
Principal Characters Mentioned in the Journal	xix
Prologue	1	(14)
The Journal of Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward	15	(128)
1863	15	(18)
Chapter 1 The Wages of War: "Silent Graves," Winchester, and Vicksburg	15	(6)
Chapter 2 Charleston Besieged: General Gillmore Shells a Sleeping City, Fort Sumter Holds Out	21	(12)
1864	33	(32)
Chapter 3 Wartime Travel: Augusta on the Cars	33	(8)
Chapter 4 Sojourn in Savannah: A Respite from the War	41	(5)
Chapter 5 A Heavy Heart: Losses in the Virginia Campaigns	46	(9)
Chapter 6 Travel and Trepidation: A Visit to Columbia, Sherman's Troops Threaten	55	(10)
1865	65	(28)
Chapter 7 "Here Come the Yankees": General Kilpatrick's Troops Arrive	65	(5)
Chapter 8 Diversion Amidst Defeat: Parties and Picnics, The Confederacy Falls	70	(14)
Chapter 9 Belles and Beaux: "In Love at Last"	84	(9)
1866	93	(18)
Chapter 10 Guerard Heyward: "My Own True Love"	93	(7)
Chapter 11 Marriage in the Offing: Wedding Preparations for November 6, 1866	100	(11)
1867	111	(8)
Chapter 12 Married Life in Bluffton: Hard Work, Happiness, and Grief	111	(8)
1868-1874 The Interim Years	119	(4)
1875-1888	123	(20)
Chapter 13 Motherhood: Elise, Maude, and Nina	123	(6)
Chapter 14 A Happy Event: The Birth of Jacob Guerard Heyward, Jr.	129	(7)
Chapter 15 Family Life: Joys and Sorrows	136	(7)
Epilogue	143	(4)
Bibliography	147	(8)
Index	155