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- catalog abstract ""When Maria Lydig Daly began her diary, she was thirty-seven years old and the wife of Charles P. Daly, a justice of the Court of Common Pleas in New York City ... She wrote as avidly, and often as angrily, on the events of the war and on its generals; on the 'dilettante' civilian volunteers and the wartime frivolity of New York society; on the Abolitionists, whose sincerity she doubted; on the institution of the draft, which set off the July 1863 riots; on the election of 1864; and on many other aspects of the conflict as seen from New York ... Her purpose in beginning the diary was to record for her own future reference what it was like to live through, and participate in, a period when the fate of the Union hung on the day-by-day actions of men she admired or hated or simply distrusted. Her diary re-creates the feeling of 'what it was like'"--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b3200594.
- catalog contributor b3200595.
- catalog contributor b3200596.
- catalog coverage "New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs 19th century.".
- catalog coverage "New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog coverage "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives.".
- catalog created "[1962]".
- catalog date "1962".
- catalog date "[1962]".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "[1962]".
- catalog description ""When Maria Lydig Daly began her diary, she was thirty-seven years old and the wife of Charles P. Daly, a justice of the Court of Common Pleas in New York City ... She wrote as avidly, and often as angrily, on the events of the war and on its generals; on the 'dilettante' civilian volunteers and the wartime frivolity of New York society; on the Abolitionists, whose sincerity she doubted; on the institution of the draft, which set off the July 1863 riots; on the election of 1864; and on many other aspects of the conflict as seen from New York ... Her purpose in beginning the diary was to record for her own future reference what it was like to live through, and participate in, a period when the fate of the Union hung on the day-by-day actions of men she admired or hated or simply distrusted. Her diary re-creates the feeling of 'what it was like'"--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1861 -- 1862 -- 1863 -- 1864 -- 1865.".
- catalog extent "xlvii, 396 p.".
- catalog hasFormat "Diary of a Union lady, 1861-1865.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Diary of a Union lady, 1861-1865.".
- catalog issued "1962".
- catalog issued "[1962]".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, Funk & Wagnalls".
- catalog relation "Diary of a Union lady, 1861-1865.".
- catalog spatial "New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs 19th century.".
- catalog spatial "New York (N.Y.) Social life and customs.".
- catalog spatial "United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Personal narratives.".
- catalog subject "973.781".
- catalog subject "Daly, Maria Lydig, 1824-1894 Diaries.".
- catalog subject "E601 .D155".
- catalog tableOfContents "1861 -- 1862 -- 1863 -- 1864 -- 1865.".
- catalog title "Diary of a Union lady, 1861-1865. Edited by Harold Earl Hammond.".
- catalog type "Daly, Maria L. swd".
- catalog type "Erlebnisbericht. swd".
- catalog type "Tagebuch 1861-1865. swd".
- catalog type "text".