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1 online resource (xxxiii, 222 pages) : illustrations, map |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Note on the Text; The Diary of Frances Peter; 1862; 1863; 1864; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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Frances Peter was one of the eleven children of Dr. Robert Peter, a surgeon for the Union army. The Peter family lived on Gratz Park near downtown Lexington, where nineteen-year-old Frances began recording her impressions of the Civil War. Because of illness, she did not often venture outside her home but was able to gather a remarkable amount of information from friends, neighbors, and newspapers. Peter's candid diary chronicles Kentucky's invasion by Confederates under Gen. Braxton Bragg in 1862, Lexington's month-long occupation by Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, and changes in attitude among the |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Peter, Frances Dallam, 1843-1864 -- Diaries
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Peter, Frances Dallam, 1843-1864 fast |
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Women -- Kentucky -- Lexington -- Diaries
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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Women
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140261
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Kentucky -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
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Lexington (Ky.) -- Biography
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Kentucky
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Kentucky -- Lexington
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United States
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Diaries
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History
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Personal narratives
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Autobiographies.
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Personal narratives.
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Récits personnels.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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Smith, John David, 1949-
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Cooper, William, 1933-
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Peter, Frances Dallam, 1843-1864.
Window on the war
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| LC no. |
99023203 |
| ISBN |
9780813148113 |
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0813148111 |
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0813196361 |
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9780813196367 |
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