TY - JOUR
T1 - Cyrena Stone’s Civil War
T2 - the “Miss Abby” diary and the Confederate home front
AU - Parten, Bennett
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Cyrena Stone was a Southern Unionist living in Atlanta, Georgia, during the Civil War. While she kept her Unionism hidden, she logged her thoughts in a diary written under the pseudonym “Miss Abby.” This essay argues that though much of the work focuses on Stone’s Unionism, the document opens a wider window into the challenges of the Confederate home front. Stone proved an adept observer of the Confederacy’s internal problems. As such, this essay builds on research concerning the Confederate home front, showing how issues involving gender, conscription, and the resistance of enslaved people collapsed the Confederacy from within.
AB - Cyrena Stone was a Southern Unionist living in Atlanta, Georgia, during the Civil War. While she kept her Unionism hidden, she logged her thoughts in a diary written under the pseudonym “Miss Abby.” This essay argues that though much of the work focuses on Stone’s Unionism, the document opens a wider window into the challenges of the Confederate home front. Stone proved an adept observer of the Confederacy’s internal problems. As such, this essay builds on research concerning the Confederate home front, showing how issues involving gender, conscription, and the resistance of enslaved people collapsed the Confederacy from within.
KW - Atlanta
KW - Confederate home front
KW - conscription
KW - gender
KW - Georgia
KW - slave resistance
KW - Southern women
KW - The Civil War
KW - Unionist
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85195689928&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/14664658.2024.2357445
DO - 10.1080/14664658.2024.2357445
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85195689928
SN - 1466-4658
JO - American Nineteenth Century History
JF - American Nineteenth Century History
ER -