- Collection:
- America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia
- Title:
- Cyrena Bailey Stone diary, 1864
- Creator:
- Stone, Cyrena Bailey, 1830-1868
- Publisher:
- Cyrena Bailey Stone diary, MS 1000. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries.
- Date of Original:
- 1864-01/1964-07
- Subject:
- Confederate States of America
Slaves--Georgia--Emancipation
Women--Georgia--Diaries - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- diaries
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
image/x-djvu - Description:
- The collection consists of a diary of Cyrena Bailey Stone written from January - July, 1864. The diary includes descriptive accounts of life in the South during the Civil War, slaves reaction to the Emancipation Proclamation and the probable fall of the Confederacy, prices for food and clothing, visits to prisons and hospitals, preparations of fortifications, shellings and cannonadings, falsified reports in Southern newspapers, diatribes towards leaders of the Confederacy especially Howell Cobb and Jefferson Davis, the fall of towns such as Tunnel Hill, Dalton, and Resaca (Ga.), and the evacuation of Atlanta.
Cataloged as part of the Georgia Archives and Manuscripts Automated Access Project: A Special Collections Gateway Program of the University Center in Georgia.
Also available on microfilm reel 1.
Cyrena Bailey Stone (1830-1868) was a teacher and Union sympathizer living near Atlanta, Georgia during the Atlanta Campaign of 1864.
America's Turning Point: Documenting the Civil War Experience in Georgia received support from a Digitizing Historical Records grant awarded to the Atlanta History Center, Georgia Historical Society, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Digital Library of Georgia by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:dlg_turningpoint_harg1000-001-003
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/harg/turningpoint/do:harg1000-001-003
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Cyrena Bailey Stone diary, MS 1000. Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries., as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Holding Institution:
- Hargrett Library
- Rights:
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