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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Anita Dwyer Withers Diary, #1746-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Full text of diary, 1860-1865

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1950

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• Catholic Church--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Diaries.
• Family--Virginia--Social life and customs.
• Richmond (Va.)--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Richmond (Va.)--Social conditions.
• Texas--Social life and customs.
• Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Withers family.
• Withers, Anita Dwyer, fl. 1860-1865.
• Withers, John, d. 1892.
• Women--Virginia--Diaries.
• Women--Virginia--Social life and customs.

Anita Dwyer Withers, wife of a United States and Confederate army officer, lived at her home in San Antonio, Tex., and briefly in Washington, D.C., before the Civil War, and in Richmond, Va., during the war, before returning to Texas in 1865. The diary, 4 May 1860-18 June 1865, mainly records her life in the Confederate capital, her concerns for her husband, John (d. 1892) and children, social visits, the Catholic Church, news from battles, rumors and threats of approaching federal troops, and temporary visits away from the city.