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Overshadowed: The Value of Judith McGuire’s Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War
by Tim Sheehan

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⁽¹⁾ [Judith W. McGuire], Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War, Third edition (Richmond: J.W. Randolph & English, Publishers, 1889), [5] (contains all quotes); In 1867, Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War was first published by E.J. Hale & Son of New York, then reprinted in 1868. J.W. Randolph & English of Richmond, VA published a third edition in 1889. All three editions have the same pagination. I prefer the third edition because it contains an appendix, titled “Corrections,” that lists most of the full names that were abbreviated or left blank in the text of the Diary. Return to Page 1

⁽²⁾ “OBITUARY: Mrs. Judith W. McGuire,” The Times (Richmond, VA.), 23 March 1897. Return to Page 2

⁽³⁾ Matthew Page Andrews, The Women of the South in War Times (Baltimore: Norman, Remington Co., 1920), p.71-72 (contains quote), 73-104, 155-196, 372-397, 404-412. Return to Page 2

⁽⁴⁾ Allan Nevins, James I. Robertson, and Bell Irvin Wiley. Civil War books; a critical bibliography (Baton Rouge: Published for the U.S. Civil War Centennial Commission by Louisiana State University Press, 1967), 180, 196. Return to Page 2

⁽⁵⁾ Mary Elizabeth Massey, Bonnet Brigades (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1966; reprinted as Women in the Civil War, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994); Mary Elizabeth Massey, Refugee life in the Confederacy (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964); Mary Elizabeth Massey, Ersatz in the Confederacy (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1952). Return to Page 3

⁽⁶⁾ For more information regarding slaveholding Southern women, their opinions regarding slavery, and their support for the Confederacy, see the following works: Mary Elizabeth Massey, The Bonnet Brigades (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1966; reprinted as Women in the Civil War, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994); Anne Firor Scott, The Southern Lady. From Pedestal to Politics 1830-1930 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970; reprint, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995); Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996; New York: Vintage Books, 1997); George C. Rable, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (Urbana IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991); Edna Susan Barber, “Sisters of the Capital:” White Women in Richmond, Virginia, 1860-1880 (PhD. diss., University of Maryland, 1997); Amy E. Murrel, Two Armies: Women’s Activism in Civil War Richmond, (honors thesis, Duke University, Spring 1993). Return to Page 3

⁽⁷⁾ Tim Sheehan, Economy Rules the Day: The The Civil War Sacrifices of Judith Walker McGuire (2005), http://historynut.info/economyrules/index.html. Return to Page 3

⁽⁸⁾ Kate Cumming, A Journal of Hospital Life in the Confederate Army of Tennessee : from the Battle of Shiloh to the end of the War: with Sketches of Life and Character, and Brief Notices of Current Events during that period (Louisville, KY: John P. Morton & Co., 1866); Kate Cumming, Kate: The Journal of a Confederate Nurse, ed. Richard Barksdale Harwell (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1959); Phoebe Yates Pember, A Southern Woman’s Story; Life in Confederate Richmond. Including Unpublished letters written from the Chimborazo Hospital (Jackson, TN: McCowat-Mercer Press, 1959); Kate Stone, Brokenburn; The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, [1955]). To locate other Confederate women's diaries, see “Diaries, Civil War,” The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs, ed. Joseph M. Flora and Lucinda H. Mackethan (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002), 207-211. Return to Page 3

⁽⁹⁾ Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, A Diary from Dixie, as written by Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of James Chesnut, Jr., United States Senator from South Carolina, 1859-1861, and afterward an aide to Jefferson Davis and brigadier-general in the Confederate army, ed. Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary (New York, D. Appleton and company, 1905). For an excellent edited edition of A Diary from Dixie, see Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, ed. C. Vann Woodward. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981). Return to Page 4

⁽¹⁰⁾ Sylvia D. Hoffert, “Mary Boykin Chesnut: Private Feminist in the Civil War South,” Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South (Volume 16, no. 1, Spring, 1977): 81-89; Anne Firor Scott, The Southern Lady. From Pedestal to Politics 1830–1930 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970; reprint, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995), [80]-102. Return to Page 4

⁽¹¹⁾ George C. Rable, Civil Wars: Women and the Crisis of Southern Nationalism (Urbana IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991); Drew Gilpin Faust, Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996; New York: Vintage Books, 1997). Return to Page 4

⁽¹²⁾ “Diaries, Civil War,” The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs, ed. Joseph M. Flora and Lucinda H. Mackethan (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002), 207-211. Return to Page 4

⁽¹³⁾ Encyclopedia of the Confederacy, ed. Richard Nelson Current (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993), Plantation mistress entry on page 1218, Chesnut entry on page 298. Return to Page 4

⁽¹⁴⁾ Kirsten E. Wood, Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), 166-167. Return to Page 4

⁽¹⁵⁾ Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, ed. C. Vann Woodward. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981); Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, A Diary from Dixie, as written by Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of James Chesnut, Jr., United States Senator from South Carolina, 1859-1861, and afterward an aide to Jefferson Davis and brigadier-general in the Confederate army, ed. Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary (New York, D. Appleton and company, 1905). Return to Page 4

⁽¹⁶⁾ C. Vann Woodward, “Diary in Fact - Diary in Form,” Mary Chesnut’s Civil War, ed. C. Vann Woodward. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), xv-xxix. Return to Page 4

⁽¹⁷⁾ Willie T. Weathers, “Judith W. McGuire: A Lady of Virginia,” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (vol. 82, no. 1, 1974): 100-113; Email, John M. Coski to Tim Sheehan, 14 June 1999. Return to Page 4

⁽¹⁸⁾ [Judith W. McGuire], Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War (New York: Arno Press, 1972); Jean V. Berlin, “Introduction,” Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War, by a Lady of Virginia (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,1995). Return to Page 4

⁽¹⁹⁾ Jean V. Berlin, “Introduction,” Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War, by a Lady of Virginia (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press,1995), xiii. Return to Page 5

⁽²⁰⁾ Janet E. Kaufman, “Judith White Brockenbrough McGuire,” American Women Writers: a Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present, ed. Lina Mainiero (New York: Ungar, 1979), 94-95. Return to Page 5

⁽²¹⁾ Amy Minton, “McGuire, Judith White Brockenbrough (1813-1897),” Women in the American Civil War, ed. Lisa Tendrich Frank (Santa Barbara, CA.: ABC-CLIO, 2008), 387; Although Virginia at War, 1861 provides all entries from 1861, it does not provide the reader with McGuire's introduction found in other editions of Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War. Judith Brockenbrough McGuire, “Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War, 1861,” edited by James I. Robertson, Virginia at War, 1861, ed. William C. Davis and James I. Robertson (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2005); Virginia at War, 1862 contains January through 30 August 1862 entries. Judith Brockenbrough McGuire, “Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War, January-July 1862,” edited by James I. Robertson, Virginia at War, 1862, ed. William C. Davis and James I. Robertson (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2007); Virginia at War, 1863 contains entries from 2 September 1862 through 28 May 1863. The entry listed as “13th [November 1862]” in Virginia at War, 1863 page 149 is listed as the “12th” in the 1867 and 1889 editions of the Diary. Judith Brockenbrough McGuire, “Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War, September 1862-May 1863,” edited by James I. Robertson, Virginia at War, 1863, ed. William C. Davis and James I. Robertson (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009); Virginia at War, 1864 contains entries from 1 June 1863 through 27 July 1864. While the content of the 26 June 1863 entry is in Virginia at War, 1864 page 164, it is not listed as the “26th” as it is listed in the 1867 and 1889 editions of the Diary. Judith Brockenbrough McGuire, “Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War, June 1863-July 1864,” edited by James I. Robertson, Virginia at War, 1864, ed. William C. Davis and James I. Robertson (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009). According to various online retailers, the expected release date of Virginia at War, 1865 is 3 November 2011. Return to Page 5

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