This work is a retelling of stories once shared over tea cups, including what life meant to a young American woman during a vital and formative period of Americ

A Record of the Actual Experiences of the Wife of a Confederate Officer. First published in 1903.

Excerpt from A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865: Being a Record of the Actual Experiences of the Wife of a Confederate Officer This history was told ov

She and her biographer were both real-life Scarlett O'Haras. Born to privilege and wealth in antebellum Virginia, she married at seventeen and then was plunged