Refugitta of Richmond: The Wartime Recollections, Grave and Gay, of Constance Cary Harrison

In the expansive canon of Civil War memoirs, relatively few accounts from women exist. Among the most engaging and informative of these rare female perspectives is Constance Cary Harrison's Recollections Grave and Gay, a lively, first-person account of the collapse of the Confederacy by the wife of President Jefferson Davis's private secretary. Although equal in literary merit to the well-known and widely available diaries of Mary Boykin...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1572337478
• ISBN13: 9781572337473
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"