Sam Richards's Civil War Diary: A Chronicle of the Atlanta Home Front by Wendy Hamand Venet, Samuel Pearce Richards

Sam Richards's Civil War Diary: A Chronicle of the Atlanta Home Front

Wendy Hamand Venet, Samuel Pearce Richards

328 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional reflective medium-paced
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This previously unpublished diary is the best-surviving firsthand account of life in Civil War-era Atlanta. Bookseller Samuel Pearce Richards (1824-1910) kept a diary for sixty-seven years. This volume excerpts the diary from October 1860, just be...

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