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[Identification of item], in the Kate S. Carney Diary #139-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Mrs. Thomas Binns of Winter Haven, Fla., in 1939.

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• Canada--Description and travel.
• Carney, Kate S., b. 1842.
• Diaries (Blank-books)
• Middle West--Description and travel.
• Murfreesboro (Tenn.)--History--19th century.
• Murfreesboro (Tenn.)--Social life and customs.
• Northeastern States--Description and travel.
• Southern States--Description and travel.
• Women--Education--United States--History.
• Women--Tennessee--Social conditions.
• Yazoo County (Miss.)--Description and travel.

Daughter of a merchant of Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Diary, with entries dated chiefly 1859-1862, of Kate S. Carney describing antebellum life in Murfreesboro, Tenn.; travel in the Southeast, Northeast, Midwest, and Canada; schooling in Philadelphia; a stay with her sister in Yazoo County, Miss.; and life in Murfreesboro during the Civil War while the city was under U.S. army occupation.