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[Identification of item], in the Amanda Dougherty Worthington Papers, #1931, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Cholera--Kentucky--History--19th century.
• College students--Virginia--Social life and customs.
• Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Confederate States of America. Army--Military life.
• Confederate States of America. Army. Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, 1st.
• Danville (Ky.)--Social conditions.
• Diaries.
• Dougherty family.
• Family--Kentucky--Social life and customs.
• Family--Mississippi--Social life and customs.
• Family--Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Plantation life--Mississippi.
• Soldiers--Confederate States of America.
• University of Virginia--Students--Social life and customs.
• Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Washington County (Miss.)--Social life and customs.
• Wayside Plantation (Washington County, Miss.)
• Women--Confederate States of America--Diaries.
• Women--Mississippi--Social life and customs.
• Worthington, Amanda Dougherty, b. 1805.
• Worthington, Amanda, b. 1845.

Daughter of Thomas Dougherty (1774-1822) of Danville, Ky., clerk of the United States House of Representatives, 1815-1822, and wife of Samuel Worthington, planter of Washington County, Miss.

MICROFILM ONLY. Family correspondence and Civil War diary. Correspondence includes letters with political and social news from Worthington's family in Washington, D.C.; letters from relatives at Danville, Ky., describing the cholera epidemic of 1833; Worthington's letters to her son at the University of Virginia, 1857-1858; letters from her son while he was serving in the 1st Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, Confederate Army of Tennessee; and other items. The diary, 1863-1865, was kept by Worthington's daughter Amanda (born 1845) and mostly concerns social life at Wayside Plantation, Willowby, Washington County, Miss.