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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Josephine Clay Habersham Habersham Diary, #1264-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Typed transcription available.

Diary published in Spencer B. King, ed., Ebb Tide, 1958.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. J. A. P. Crisfield of Savannah, Ga., April 1947.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

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• Chatham County (Ga.)--History--19th century.
• Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Diaries.
• Family--Georgia--Social life and customs.
• Habersham, Josephine Clay Habersham, 1821-1893.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Hospitals.
• Women--Confederate States of America--Diaries.

• Habersham Family Papers (#1341-z), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Josephine Clay Habersham Habersham (1821-1893) lived for a time at Avon near Savannah, in Chatham County, Ga.

The collection is the diary of Josephine Clay Habersham Habersham while living at Avon, near Savannah, in Chatham County, Ga., concerning family and social life, war hardships, and hospital work. Entries describe daily life with her younger children and the correspondence with her son, Joseph Clay Habersham, a lieutenant in the Confederate army in Mississippi and Tennessee.