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Posted in Civil War
South Carolina Lady on the Capture of President Jefferson Davis by “Fiends”
On May 10, 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was captured near Irwinville, Georgia while trying to escape pursuing Union forces. Confederate partisan Emma Holmes of…
A Charleston Lady on the Capture of Black Soldiers July 1863
Emma Holmes left a remarkable diary of her experiences during the Civil War. A member of a prominent Charleston family, Holmes was in her twenties…
Posted in Women and Gender
A South Carolina Lady on the Death of the Confederacy: “Our slain heroes cried out against such an end”
Emma Holmes was a twenty-two year old woman when the Civil War began. The scion of a well-connected Charleston family, she had rejoiced when the…
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