Inventory of the Trudy Alston Diary, 1861-1864
Collection Number 5032-z
Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Alston, Trudy.
- Title
- Trudy Alston Diary, 1861-1864
- Call Number
- 5032-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
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- Items: 1
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Administrative Information
- Acquisitions Information
- Received from Charles Apfelbaum of Watchung, N.J., in June 2000 (Acc. 98683).
- Processing Information
- Processed by: John Foster, November 2000
- Encoded by: John Foster, November 2000
- Revisions: Finding aid updated in February 2005 by Nancy Kaiser
- Funding from the Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc., supported the microfilming of this collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Trudy Alston Diary #5032-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Alston, Trudy.
- Camp Chase (Ohio).
- Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
- Confederate States of America--Social life and customs.
- Diaries.
- Mississippi--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives.
- Mississippi--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women.
- Raymond (Miss.), Battle of, 1863.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Prisoners and prisons.
- Women--Diaries--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
- Women--Mississippi--Diaries.
- Women--Mississippi--Social life and customs.
Biographical Note
Trudy Alston lived near Raymond, Miss., during the Civil War. She kept an occasional diary of the events that occurred, 1861-1864, during which time her brother Robert (Bob) and friend Edgar fought in the Confederate Army. She was present during the Battle of Raymond in 1863. In 1864, her brother Robert was captured by federal troops, probably during the Battle of Nashville, and interned at Camp Chase, Ohio.
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Diary of Trudy Alston, kept intermittently between 1861 and 1864 while living near Raymond, Miss. The diary reports on daily activities of the Alston family and their circle of friends, as well as events such as the death of various acquaintances during the course of the Civil War. The diary contains several pages of description of the Battle of Raymond (1863), which occurred close to Alston's home, as well as notes from friends departing for service in the Confederate Army. The diary concludes with a entry detailing her brother Robert Alston's capture by Union troops, probably at the Battle of Nashville, and his subsequent incarceration at Camp Chase, Ohio.
Detailed Description of the Collection
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