{"product_id":"9781621900382","title":"The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams: A Southern Woman's Story of Rebellion and Reconstruction, 1863-1890","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1863, while living in Clarksville, Tennessee, Martha Ann Haskins, known to friends\u003cbr\u003e and family as Nannie, began a diary. \u003ci\u003eThe Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams: A Southern\u003cbr\u003e Woman’s Story of Rebellion and Reconstruction, 1863–1890\u003c\/i\u003e provides valuable insights into\u003cbr\u003e the conditions in occupied Middle Tennessee. A young, elite Confederate sympathizer,\u003cbr\u003e Nannie was on the cusp of adulthood with the expectation of becoming a mistress in\u003cbr\u003e a slaveholding society. The war ended this prospect, and her life was forever changed.\u003cbr\u003e Though this is the first time the diaries have been published in full, they are well known\u003cbr\u003e among Civil War scholars, and a voice-over from the wartime diary was used repeatedly\u003cbr\u003e in Ken Burns’s famous PBS program \u003ci\u003eThe Civil War.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSixteen-year-old Nannie had to come to terms with Union occupation very early in\u003cbr\u003e the war. Amid school assignments, young friendship, social events, worries about her\u003cbr\u003e marital prospects, and tension with her mother, Nannie’s entries also mixed information\u003cbr\u003e about battles, neighbors wounded in combat, U.S. Colored troops, and lawlessness in the\u003cbr\u003e surrounding countryside. Providing rare detail about daily life in an occupied city, Nannie’s\u003cbr\u003e diary poignantly recounts how she and those around her continued to fight long after\u003cbr\u003e the war was over—not in battles, but to maintain their lives in a war-torn community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough numerous women’s Civil War diaries exist, Nannie’s is unique in that she also\u003cbr\u003e recounts her postwar life and the unexpected financial struggles she and her family experienced\u003cbr\u003e in the post-Reconstruction South. Nannie’s diary may record only one woman’s\u003cbr\u003e experience, but she represents a generation of young women born into a society based\u003cbr\u003e on slavery but who faced mature adulthood in an entirely new world of decreasing farm\u003cbr\u003e values, increasing industrialization, and young women entering the workforce. Civil War\u003cbr\u003e scholars and students alike will learn much from this firsthand account of coming-of-age\u003cbr\u003e during the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMinoa D. Uffelman is an associate professor of history at Austin Peay State University.\u003cbr\u003e Ellen Kanervo is professor emerita of communications at Austin Peay State University.\u003cbr\u003e Phyllis Smith is retired from the U.S. Army and currently teaches high school science in\u003cbr\u003e Montgomery County, Tennessee. Eleanor Williams is the Montgomery County, Tennessee,\u003cbr\u003e historian.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Tennessee Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47041982890224,"sku":"9781621900382","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781621900382_p0.jpg?v=1769905007","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781621900382","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}