Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

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KATE S. CARNEY DIARY
Inventory

Full text of diary, 15 April 1861-31 July 1862

Abstract:      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.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Canada--Description and travel--1763-1867.
   Carney, Kate S., b. 1842.
   Diaries.
   Middle West--Description and travel--19th century.
   Murfreesboro (Tenn.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
   Murfreesboro (Tenn.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
   Northeastern States--Description and travel--19th century.
   Southern States--Description and travel--19th century.
   Tennessee--Social life and customs--19th century.
   Women--Diaries--Tennessee--History--19th century.
   Women--Education--United States--History--19th century.
   Women--Tennessee--Social life and customs--19th century.
   Yazoo County (Miss.)--Description and travel--19th century.

Size:  1 volume (1 folder and 1 reel of microfilm).

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

Access:        No restrictions.

Processing Note:   This collection was processed with support
                   from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.  

Copyright:     Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
               or their descendants, as stipulated by United
               States copyright law.