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[Identification of item], in the Catherine Barbara Hopkins Broun Papers #2389-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Lent for copy by Bessie Broun of Fredericksburg, Va., in October 1941.

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• Broun, Catherine Barbara Hopkins, 1820-1903.
• Broun, Edwin.
• Brown family.
• Loudoun County (Va.)--History--19th century.
• Middleburg (Va.)--History--19th century.
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Virginia.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America--Correspondence.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Women--Virginia--Diaries.
• Women--Virginia--Social conditions.

Diary of Catherine B. Broun, wife of Edwin Broun, describing events and conditions in the area near her home at "Sunny Bank," Middleburg, Loudoun County, Va., during and after the Civil War. Mrs. Broun wrote detailed descriptions of life situated between the opposing armies, her dealing with soldiers from both sides, difficulties in obtaining supplies, family affairs, activities of Mosby's raiders, behavior of slaves and freedmen, her husband's imprisonment by the federal authorities, hardships suffered by her family and friends, and, after the war, the education of her children. Also included are copies of Broun family letters, 1861 (9 items), written from Confederate Army camps in Charleston, Va. [now W. Va.], and 1863 (3 items) from Washington, D.C., and Loudoun County.