“Compiled by Susan Leigh Blackford, from original and contemporaneous memoirs, correspondence and diaries. Annotated by her husband, Charles Minor Blackford. Edited and abridged for publication by Charles Minor Blackford.”
“1862-1863. Near Richmond, Virginia. These memoirs, written in 1911 by a plantation wife describe life in the Peninsula-while Yankee troops were invading-and mention Union balloon observers.”