This Journal records the Civil War experiences of a sensitive, well-educated, young southern woman.
Kate began her Journal in May, 1861, and made regular entr.
When Grant moved against Vicksburg, the family fled before the invading armies, eventually found refuge in Texas, and finally returned to a devastated home.
Kate Stone was twenty when the war began, living with her widowed mother, five brothers, and younger sister at Brokenburn, their plantation home in northeastern Louisiana.
This Journal records the Civil War experiences of a sensitive, well-educated, young southern woman