Village life in America, 1852-1872, including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl

America's rural life from 1852 to 1872, including the American Civil War era as described in the diary of female students

"American Country Life" is a diary written by cards written by Caroline Cowles Richards since 1852 and later written by Edmund Clark. Rolling began at the age of ten, by the year 1872 she got married and made a family. The writer lived in the Finger Lakes district of Canandaigua in New York and lived with her grandparents Mrs. Thomas Bears and her sister Anna for 4 years. Caroline's mother died, pursued career, remarried, and had a new family, so his father sent these girls to beer. He often writes to a girl. Even with these minor facts, you will notice that nuclear families are not as stable as we thought in the past. Because it is often torn by death and children are sent to live with relatives instead of staying next to one parent.

Howland was living a long and fulfilling life. Born in northern New York State, she taught at a free African-American girls school in Washington, DC before the Civil War, taught a newly released slave to study at the Todd Camp in Virginia during the war, I set up my school for. . . She later became the first woman to become a director of the National Bank - she kept that position until she died at the age of 101. "One thing that appeared in this album was that it was a tightly integrated group," Beverly Brannan said. Prints and photography department of the library. "They are abolishists and they are interested in the education of all children, especially children of slave and former slave children.They always contact them to complete these projects together I am keeping in touch with each other. "

The two diaries of this series came from the Civil War era (April 1861 to November 1861, November 1861 to March 1863). They recorded the life of Charles Ingasoll's daughter, Philadelphia writer and diary writer Sydney George Fisher's wife Elizabeth Ingersoll Fisher (1815-1872) and recorded the war news. And everyday events. Fischer is very interested in the news of the war reported in the newspaper. She talks about daily chores such as growing vegetables and flowers in the diary, but pay more attention to national events surrounding the war. On April 20, 1861, in the first month of the war she wrote: "There are neither post nor telegram in the south, people seem to want to protect more capital, many troops disappear , And they are still going on. "Fisher noticed a parade of" family guards "seen in Philadelphia on the 5th.