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When the World Ended: The Diary of Emma LeConte
by Emma LeConte (Author), Earl Schenck Miers (Editor), Anne Firor Scott (Foreword) & 0 more★★★★★
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"I wonder if the new year is to bring us new miseries and sufferings," seventeen-year-old Emma LeConte wrote in her diary on December 31, 1864. In fact, the worst was yet to come. Her later entries portray the city of Columbia, South Carolina, like much of the South, under the grip of Sherman's army. No reader of this diary is likely to forget the defiant, well-bred Emma, who describes a family's anxieties and brave attempts to get on with life while the Civil War rages around them. Read more
Product Information
| Publisher | University of Nebraska Press |
| Publication date | October 1, 1987 |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 124 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 080328151X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0803281516 |
| Item Weight | 6.4 ounces |
| Dimensions | 5.5 x 0.5 x 8 inches |
| Best Sellers Rank | #2,250,249 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #232 in U.S. Civil War Women's History #1,338 in U.S. Civil War Confederacy History #1,817 in American Civil War Biographies (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars (15) |