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Title: DIARY OF A UNION LADY, 1861-1865
By: Maria Lydig Daly, Harold Earl Hammond (Editor), Jean V. Berlin
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0803266235
ISBN 13: 9780803266230
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Pub. date: 1 June, 2000
Pages: 396
Description: This work offers an intimate memoir of Maria Lydig Daly. As the wife of a a prominent New York City judge, she met many major figures in Northern military and diplomatic strategy. Her caustic, and often biased, comments on everything present a lively memoir from a Northern non-combatant.
Synopsis: Rumor, gossip, and innuendo are the weapons of the home front, and no one wielded them with quite the aplomb of Maria Lydig Daly. Her richly detailed comments on everything from inept Union generals to Dorothea Dix's appearance provide the liveliest memoir to emerge from a Northern noncombatant. Daly was the wife of a prominent New York City judge whose connections allowed her to meet many major figures involved in Northern military and diplomatic strategy. Despite catty comments about Mrs. Lincoln and less-than-flattering appraisals of Union generalship, Daly could be sympathetic toward the suffering of the soldiers. She noted the fear with which many viewed the draft, seeing it as a terrible incursion on liberty, but she understood that the times called for severe measures.
Publication: US
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Returns: Returnable
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