"Southern Women Record the Civil War"
The Civil War As Seen Through The Eyes Of The Women Who Lived
Through It
by Rochelle Ramga
The American Civil War is often described as the
first modern war, a war not only between armed men in battle, but
total war waged upon the ability of the enemy nation to make war.
Total war rains destruction upon the unarmed civilians in their
homes, factories and fields. It is war that destroys the lives of
women and children unable to fight in their own defense. Hundreds of
diaries were written during the Civil War. This essay will present
six women caught in total war. They write of their pride in their
own new nation and its soldiers and their outrage at the nation and
soldiers who destroyed them and then expected their loyalty. Armed
conflict may end on the battlefield, but total war waged on
civilians caught in the anger and frustration of defenselessness
does not end in surrender or peace agreements. These unarmed women
are responsible for raising the next generation, whose loyalty to
the federal government will be expected. These six women are
Cornelia McDonald, Kate Stone, Emma Holmes, Sarah Morgan, Kate
Cumming, and Emma LeConte, each leaving us her diary of the tragic
Civil War years.
Only Kate Cumming as a nurse may be seen by some to have made a
difference in the war, but each of these along with thousands of
others kept the fields planted, the clothes made, and the children
cared for and taught. Some worked in factories, while most worked in
their homes. Wherever they served, these women knew what would be
lost if their armies were defeated. They experienced the
depredations and abuse of invasion. Their enthusiasm and patriotism
encouraged many a doubtful soldier. Only when that spirit was
broken, were the armies broken. When the battlefields fell silent,
the women's work had only begun. They were left to heal and nurture
shattered husbands, sons, and fathers, and they needed all their
strength to raise the next generation, both at home and in the
schoolroom. Their experiences during the war would affect the
generations to come. They made a great difference before, during,
and after the war.
Cornelia McDonald is the oldest of these six diarists. Born in
Alexandria, Virginia, she was the thirty-eight year old second wife
of Angus McDonald, living in Winchester, Virginia when the war
began. Angus, who had previously worked with the Federal government
and only recently returned from a conference in Europe, had
requested she keep a record as "he wished to be informed of each
day's events as they took place during his absence.1 Kate Stone,
Emma Holmes, and Sarah Morgan were young women, ages twenty,
twenty-two, and nineteen, living in Madison County, Louisiana,
Charleston, South Carolina, and Baton Rouge at the war's beginning.
These three, as well as Cornelia, would be forced to leave their
homes and become refugees. In November of 1900, Kate wrote, "in the
winter of 1861 commenced the great events. I took up the record of
my journal that was to record many woeful changes before four years
of agony and strife were over.2 Emma Holmes began her diary on
February 13, 1861 writing, "How I wish I had kept a journal during
the last three months of great political changes. 3 Sarah, whose
diary was started on March 9, 1862 told her son in 1896, "Early in
the war I began to keep a diary, and continued to the very end; I
had to find some vent for my feelings." 4A Kate Cumming left her
home in Mobile to serve the Army of Tennessee as a nurse. She wrote
at the first publication of her diary in 1866, "These notes of
passing events, often penned amid the active duties of hospital
life, but feebly indicate, and only faintly picture, the sad
reality... I now pray ...that nation may not lift a sword against
nation, nor learn war any more. It is with that hope that the same
feeling may be aroused in every reader that I present this volume to
the public. 5 She also urged the South to continue to look to
Scotland as an example of how a people "are as distinct a
nationality as the first day they were united 6 with England. Emma
LeConte was only thirteen when the war began, living in Columbia,
South Carolina. She began her short diary December 31, 1864,
explaining in old age, "I suppose it was a kind of New Year's start
that would have been dropped but that events crowded with so much of
horror and disaster that I could but try to chronicle them."7
From nearly one hundred and forty years ago, the words of these
women, from seventeen to forty-two, Winchester to Mobile, Charleston
to Texas speak to us today. Each suffered deep losses, and
experienced the devastation of their lives by the government they
would be forced to obey. Each deeply loved her homeland and new
nation. Their words express their pride, suffering, anger,
resentment, sorrow, courage, and endurance. None traveled in
government circles, but each was a literate representative of the
upper white class in the Confederacy.
Following Kernstown, which her twelve and thirteen year old sons had
witnessed, Cornelia writes, "Not until the Federal dead were all
buried on the field, and their wounded brought in, which occupied
nearly two days, were our people allowed to go to the relief of
their wounded. Then, no doubt, many had perished who could have been
saved had timely relief been given. Our people buried their own
dead."8 She rejoices on July 4, 1862 writing, "We have heard the
result, We are victorious, McClellen driven back, driven away! 9 On
November 28, 1862, she writes, "Gen. Hill's division passed through
town. They were destitute, many without shoes, and all without
overcoats or gloves, although the weather is freezing. Their poor
hands looked so red and cold holding their muskets in the biting
wind. Such delicate, small hands and feet some of them had. One
South Carolina regiment I especially noticed, had hands and feet
that looked as if they belonged to women, and so cold and red and
dirty they were. That last must have been the hardest to bear, the
dirt, for gentlemen, as most of them were. They did not, however,
look dejected, but went on their way joyously." 10 Six months later
she mourns the loss of Jackson; "The shadows are dancing around us
in the devoted town. . . His place will be forever in the hearts of
the Southern people. Not only the Hero's laurels bind his brow, but
a crown incorruptible has been placed on it by the great Captain
whose he was and whom he served." 11 In July of 1863 she was forced
to leave her home with her seven children, spending time in
Woodstock, New Market, Staunton, Charlottsville, and Lynchburg
before finding a small place in Lexington, Virginia. That winter she
writes of the hardships, "The little boys were without shoes, and
the winter close upon us."12 In 1861, a stepson had been killed, in
August of 1862 she lost her infant daughter, and on December 1, 1864
her husband died after months in a Union prison. Prior to his death,
he had "left word that his sons were not to avenge his death, that
they were to let the wicked alone to the vengeance of the Almighty.
He said he did not wish the children, the young ones, to remain in
the country if it was conquered, that he did not suppose the older
ones would survive our defeat, but the younger ones must not remain
in the country to suffer the humiliation." 13 He was sixty-four,
unable to survive the rigors of prison. She witnesses the 1864
burning in the valley, writing "The Virginia Military Institute with
all the professors' houses was set on fire. . . When I reached the
scene, Mrs. Letcher was sitting on a stone in the street with her
baby on her lap sleeping, and her other little children gathered
around, 14 On March 20, 1865 she allowed her son, not yet seventeen,
to enter service saying, "I felt it would be wrong to refuse him."15
Fortunately for him, if not the Confederacy, he did not have long to
serve as "The eventful 9P of April came, and the day after we heard
of Lee's surrender. I can never forget the effect the intelligence
had on me and on my family. I felt as if the end of all things had
come, at least for the Southern people. 16 She was living in
Lexington when Lee came as the new Washington College president. She
writes admiringly of how he refused offers of money saying that any
"they could spare be given to the families of the dead soldiers. How
different from the great man on the other side." 17 She also relates
how in October of 1865 she told Gen. Pendleton's wife, `eve are
starving, I and my children," 18 when Mrs. Pendleton had come to
tell her of money "that had been sent to Canada for secret service;
that after the surrender those in whose hands it was, determined to
devote it to the relief of the destitute widows and orphans of
Confederate soldiers."19
We do not have diaries of the mothers of Kate Stone, Emma Holmes,
and Sarah Morgan who would have been of Cornelia McDonald's
generation, and like her, each was responsible for the welfare of
her family. Instead we have diaries written by their daughters. Kate
and Emma had lost their fathers prior to the war and Sarah's died in
November of 1861.
Kate Stone's mother was managing their plantation Brokenburn alone
when the war began. The family was forced to leave as Grant's troops
advanced on Vicksburg in the spring of 1863, and the Stones spent
the last two years of the war in Texas. As the war began, Kate wrote
in May of 1861, "Men are hurrying by thousands, eager to be led to
battle against Lincoln's hordes ...Never can we join hands with the
North, the people who hate us so."20Later that month she added, "We
should make a stand for our rights-and a nation fighting for its own
homes and liberty cannot be overwhelmed. Our cause is just and must
prevail." 21 On July 26, 1861 she wrote, "Received telegraphic
accounts of our first pitched battle fought at Manassas Junction-our
side victorious, of course."22 On November 27, she mourned the loss
of her young uncle who had died of swamp fever while with the army
near Vicksburg, "Ashburn, our darling, has gone, never to return. .
. brilliant with the very joy of living such a little while ago, and
now dead-dead to it all."23 In the spring of 1862, at the approach
of the Union army, she writes, "The planters look upon the burning
of the cotton as almost ruin to their fortunes, but all realize its
stern necessity and we have not heard of one trying to evade it.. .
How much better to burn our cities than let them fall into the
enemy's hands. 24 As the family started on their way west, word was
received of the death of her brother, "I can hardly believe that our
bright, merry little brother Walter has been dead for seven weeks
...I hope he did not realize Death was so near and all he loved so
far away ...He was eighteen in December and died in February. He was
but a boy and could not stand the hardships of a soldier's life.
Four months of it killed him. ,25 Life in Texas is not easy and she
writes, "It does not look like we will be crowded with company. Not
a native man or lady has called." 26 The losses continue and on
December 10, 1863 she writes, "Again we are called on to mourn one
of our dearest and best. Brother Coley has crossed the Dark Valley,
free from all pain and trouble. He lies at rest and we are desolate
indeed." 27 In May of 1864, she was cheered as `Banks with his
insolent boasts and vainglorious columns. . . is met at glorious
Mansfield and Pleasant Hill [La.] by our brave soldiers and meets
only defeat and disgrace. ,28 As with the McDonalds, a young son,
Jimmy, joined the war in 1864 at the age of seventeen serving only
eight months. As the end came, she wrote on May 15, 1865, "The best
and bravest of the South sacrificed-and for nothing. Yes, worse than
nothing. Only to rivet more firmly the chains that bind us." 29 The
family returned to Brokenburn in November of 1865 and Kate wrote,
"Nothing is left but to endure." 30 She did make a few later
entries, but ended her diary in September 1868, "So this is the
end-shall I ever care to write again?"31
Emma Holmes was living in Charleston as South Carolina seceded and
the war began. On April 13, 1861 she wrote, "the great body of
citizens [seems] to be so impressed with the justice of our cause
that they place entire confidence in the God of Battles. 32 In
December 1861 much of Charleston was destroyed by fire, including
the Holmes home. Help was received from other areas of the
Confederacy, and Emma wrote on December 17, "I look beyond to
brighter times & firmly believe that God has permitted this to unite
us still more closely than before & to prepare and purify us through
suffering for the great position he means us to occupy."33 For a
while the family remained in Charleston with relatives. While there
Emma worries about Gen. Pemberton's defense of the city and hopes
that Gen. Beauregard will return "for his presence alone will
inspire that confidence which Pemberton fails to give. 34 Pemberton
"is a Pennsylvanian. "35 In June of 1862, Emma and her family moved
to Camden, South Carolina. Four of Emma's five brothers served the
Confederacy during the war. The oldest brother Henry was a doctor.
Only John, born in 1848 did not serve. Even the next youngest born
in 1847 entered in1864. Fortunately all survived, although many
friends and relatives did not. The Holmes family had a difficult
time finding suitable housing and moved more than once. Emma mourned
the losses as when she writes on July 3, 1862, "The tide of sorrows
grows fearfully great-a telegram. . . announces the death of cousin
Henry-he the idolized son, brother, husband, and father of four
little boys-it is too terrible. 36 She also described the problem of
shoes; "Alester could not go to school today, for want of a pair of
shoes, so he borrowed mother's carpet slippers." 37 On May 8, 1863
she wrote, "The news from Virginia is most cheering-decisive
victories being gained on Saturday and Sunday at
Chancellorsville."38 The next day she was "too shocked to learn by
the paper that Gen. Earl Van Dom has been murdered, " 39 and on May
11 mourning, "Stonewall Jackson is dead. The mournful tidings are
swept over the length and breadth of our land by the electric wires
with crushing effect."40 On July 9, 1863, she is saddened by the
news from Vicksburg and Gettysburg, but cheered by the news 'from
Charleston's Fort Wagner. "We learned what a tremendous assault had
been made and how gloriously repulsed."41 By the end of December,
she wrote, "I sometimes think my journal will be merely a catalogue
of deaths."42 Emma tutored though the war years helping to meet the
high expenses and as Sherman's army approached in 1865 "still
carried on school amidst constant false alarms & interruptions."43
In the wake of the Union army, she writes on March 11,"Homeless
exiles we are now indeed in the bitterest sense, when our very
graves & altars are profaned and ruined by the vilest of hands.'44
She ends her diary in March 1866, while "Despair is laying its icy
hand on all. Day by day it becomes harder to get money.. . for the
necessaries of life, 45 and is still mourning, now the deaths of
"the Gallant Gen. Ste. [phen] Elliott" and "the Rev. Stephen
Elliott, scarce three weeks after he had laid his beloved son among
the graves of his kindred."46
The Morgan family, as many others, was divided by the war. Of the
five brothers of Sarah Morgan, one took the Federal oath of office
while refusing to serve against the South, and of the remaining
four, only one survived the war. Sarah did not begin her diary until
March 1862, and on April 12, she recalls a party given for soldiers
the previous year, writing, "All those dancing there that night have
undergone trial and affliction since. Father is dead, and Harry. Mr.
Trezevant lies in Corinth with his skull fractured by a bullet;
every young man there has been in at least one battle since, and
every woman has cried over her son, brother, or sweetheart, going
away to the wars, or lying sick and wounded. 47 In August of 1862,
the family left their Baton Rouge home as Union troops approached.
On August 28, Sarah returned to her home and recorded, "As I looked
for each well known article, I could hardly believe that Abraham
Lincoln's officers had really come so low down as to steal on such a
wholesale manner. 48 She describes glasses and mirrors broken,
clothes and letters strewn about and books stolen concluding, `Bah!
What is the use of describing such a scene?"49 As Grant approached
Vicksburg, she wrote, "It has come at last! What an awful sound! I
thought I had heard bombardment before; but Baton Rouge was child's
play compared to this ....There is a burning house in the distance,
the second one we have seen to-night. For Yankees can't prosper
unless they are pillaging honest people."50 The Morgans had stayed
with various relatives and friends, but in April 1863 they feel they
have no choice but to move to New Orleans with Sarah's Unionist
brother. As the city was under Federal occupation, a loyalty oath
was required. Sarah writes, "How about that oath of allegiance? is
what I frequently ask myself, and always an uneasy qualm of
conscience troubles me. Guilty or not guilty of perjury? According
to the law of God in the abstract, and of nations, Yes; according to
my conscience, Jeff Davis, and the peculiar position I was placed
in, No. Which is it? Had I any idea that such a pledge would be
extracted, would I have been willing to come? Never! The thought
would have horrified me ....A forced oath, all men agree is not
binding. It is entirely optional; you have only to take it quietly
or go to jail. If perjury it is, which will God punish: me, who was
unwilling to commit the crime, or the man who forced me to it?"51 In
March 1865, the family receives word that two of the boys are now
dead, and Sarah cries out, "Dead! Dead! Both dead! O my brothers!
What have we lived for except you? We, who would have so gladly laid
down our lives for yours, are left desolate to mourn over all we
loved and hoped for, weak and helpless; while you, so strong, noble,
and brave, have gone before us without a murmur. God knows best. But
it is hard--O so hard! To give them up."52 Later she pleads, "How
will the world seem to us now? What will life be without the boys?
When this terrible strife is over, and so many thousands return to
their homes, what will peace bring us of all we hoped? Jimmy! Dear
Lord, spare us that one!" 53 Jimmy did come home alive. On May 20,
she wrote "Last Saturday, the 29th of April, seven hundred and fifty
paroled Louisianians from Lee's army were brought here-the sole
survivors of ten regiments who left four years ago so full of hope
and determination." 54
Kate Cumming's mother had died prior to the war. Her father, too old
to serve, remained in Mobile while Kate served the Army of Tennessee
as a nurse, and her only brother David served in the army. David,
although injured, survived. As a nurse, Kate witnessed and recorded
the deaths of hundreds. She began service in Corinth following the
battle of Shiloh, where the injured reported "that on the bands of
their hats was written, `Hell or Corinth;' meaning, that they were
determined to reach one of the places. Heaven help the poor wretches
who could degrade themselves thus. I can not but pity them, and pray
that God will turn the hearts of their living comrades. Can such a
people expect to prosper? Are they really mad enough to think that
they can conquer us-a people who shudder at such blasphemy; who, as
a nation, have put our trust in the God of battles, and whose sense
of the magnanimous would make us scorn to use such language?"55
Kate, like many of her country continued to hope for help from
abroad. On March 23, 1863, she hears from a friend in England, who
"says they have still great hopes of our success, and that the
people sympathize a great deal with us. I wish they would show it
differently from what they do."56 On June 6th she records, "Vallandigham
passed through here a few days ago. He had little or no notice taken
of him, as he is not a southerner; but still clings to the delusion
that the Union can again be restored. What madness in any sane man!
That can never be until the terrible past is wiped out, and sinks
into oblivion; or until the many thousands who have been slain shall
be brought to life, and the outrages which have been committed on
our people undone. I can not but admire him for his independence of
character in defying Lincoln and his minions. Would that we had many
more like him in the North, then our hopes of peace would be bright
indeed." 57 She often records the difficulty of obtaining suitable
food for the patients, but records on November 13, "We have had a
number of ladies from the country visiting the wounded; many of them
have come twenty miles. They bring baskets full of all kinds of
eatables. It does me good to see them come, as the very best we can
give wounded men is not enough. "58 In November 29P she records that
"the Georgia legislature has appropriated a large sum of money for
the relief of the soldiers families in their state. I do hope that
other states will imitate them. Men can not be expected to fight
when their wives and children are starving."59 How prescient a
statement! On the same day she also records, "I see by the papers
that Lincoln is out with another call for three hundred thousand
more troops. . . Lincoln may get men to fill his last call, and yet,
if the South is only true to herself, she can never be conquered
...I look around me sometimes, and see so many good intelligent men,
and think what a sad thing it would be were we subjugated. I believe
such a thing is a moral impossibility, and can never happen." 60 She
ends her diary in May, 1865, proud of her city, `Mobile has acted
nobly in this contest. The main portion of her arms bearing citizens
were in the field, and those who were incapable of taking the field
worked assiduously in relieving the wants of those who were in it,
and they did every thing that could be done for the relief of the
poor in the city. The History of Mobile is, I expect, the history of
every city in the South."61 "But all is gone now, and we must try
and `let the dead past bury its dead! " 62
Emma LeConte was a very young woman, only seventeen, when total war
came to Columbia, South Carolina. However, she witnessed and
recorded one of the most controversial examples of total war. She
was the oldest of a family of daughters and her father Joseph
LeConte was a science professor at the South Carolina College in
Columbia. During the war he served as a chemist in the Confederate
States Nitre and Mining Bureau. She did not lose immediate family
members in the war, but as her diary begins on December 31, 1864,
she writes, "Oh my country! Will I live to see thee subjugated and
enslaved by those Yankees-surely every man and woman will die first.
. . A sea rolls between them and us-a sea of blood. Smoking houses,
outraged women, murdered fathers, brothers, and husbands forbid such
a union. Reunion! Great Heavens! How we hate them with the whole
strength and depth of our souls."63 Sherman's troops had not yet
reached the Carolinas. During the second week of January 1865,
Columbia held a Soldiers' Bazaar. Emma had expected to take interest
in it, but writes instead. "It seems like the dance of death, and
who can tell that Sherman may not get the money that was made
instead of our sick soldiers. How long before our beautiful little
city may be sacked and laid in ashes." 64 She did not have long to
wait. On February 174' she writes, "Well, they are here. I was
sitting in the back parlor when I heard the shouting of the troops
.... Iran upstairs to my bedroom windows just in time to see the U.
S. flag run up over the State House. Oh, what a horrid sight! What a
degradation! After four long bitter years of bloodshed and hatred,
now to float there at last! That hateful symbol of despotism! I do
not think I could possibly describe my feelings. I know I could not
look at it."65 Later that day she records, "Gen. Sherman has assured
the mayor `that he and all the citizens may sleep as securely and
quietly tonight as if under Confederate rule. Private property shall
be carefully respected." 66 The next day, she records, "Strange as
it may seem, we were actually idiotic enough to believe Sherman
would keep his word! A Yankee-and Sherman! It does seem incredible,
such credulity, but I suppose we were anxious to believe him-the
lying fiend! I hope retributive justice will find him out one day."
67 She describes the fires, "The fire on Main Street was now raging,
and we anxiously watched its progress from the upper front windows.
In a little while, however, the flames broke forth in every
direction. The drunken devils roamed about, setting fire to every
house the flames seemed likely to spare. They were fully equipped
for the noble work they had in hand. Each soldier was furnished with
combustibles compactly put up. They would enter houses in the
presence of helpless women and children, pour turpentine on the beds
and set them on fire. Guards were rarely of any assistance-most
generally they assisted in pillaging and firing." 68 Later, she
adds, "I suppose we owe our final escape to the presence of the
Yankee wounded in the hospital. When all seemed in vain, Dr Thompson
went to an officer and asked if he would see his own soldiers burnt
alive."69 Later, she adds, "This is civilized warfare. This is the
way in which the `cultured' Yankee nation wars upon women and
children! Failing with our men in the field, this is the way they
must conquer!"70 On the 25th, still determined, she writes, "The
more we suffer, the more we should be willing to undergo rather than
submit."71 By this time, the destruction of the food is evident and
she writes, "I hope relief will come before famine actually
threatens. " 72 Throughout this time, her father had been gone,
removing government records, but on the 2e, she reports, "At last I
have something joyful to chronicle Father is returned!"73 Her last
entry on August 60'° explains why she has written so little, "As to
the condition of the country and our unhappy state as a people, it
would seem better not to think of that, still less to write of it.
It makes me miserable and intensifies the wicked feelings I have too
much anyway." 74 Perhaps she spoke for all of these diarists, who
discontinued their entries soon after the conclusion of the war.
The diaries are painful reading, especially for one whose ancestors
fought for the Union. One must admire these women who endured and
survived. All of them lived into the twentieth century, Emma LeConte
till 1932; the other five died between 1907 and 1910. Cornelia
McDonald eventually moved to Louisville, Kentucky, not having the
resources to restore the Winchester home. However, the home has now
been restored and is used as a private home. She taught art to
support the children and did not remarry. Both Emma Holmes and Kate
Cumming remained single and became teachers, Emma back in her
hometown of Charleston and Kate relocating with her father to
Birmingham. Kate Stone, Sarah Morgan, and Emma LeConte married and
raised families. We can only wonder what these women taught the
children in their homes and schools. Could the bitterness, anguish
and resentment so evident in their diaries not be passed to the next
generation? For these women, there were no healing reunions, no
handshakes across stone walls. These were the women whose
descendents still celebrate their heroes, mourn their dead, and
decorate their soldiers' graves. These were also the women expected
to raise loyal Americans. These were remarkable women whose diaries
bring them and their tragic war years alive for the reader.
Obviously, they made a difference, as they were the reasons for
continuing the fight. Defending their families and homes kept the
soldiers in the field so long as the families were able to survive.
It was only when the women and children began to starve that the men
sometimes chose to leave the front. They not only made a difference
in the 1860s, but their words speak to us today. In the 1860s or
2000 how does a nation considering itself to be the last best hope
of mankind or the enlightened and civilized leader of the world
decide to wage war on the defenseless?
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