Author : Ida Powell Dulany
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 38,27 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1572336587
Book Description
The Piedmont area of Loudoun and Fauquier Counties, Virginia, near the Maryland border, was hotly contested throughout the Civil War. The mistress of a slave-holding estate, Ida Powell Dulany took over control of the extensive family lands once her husband left to fight for the Confederacy. She struggled to manage slaves, maintain contact with her neighbors, and keep up her morale after her region was abandoned by the Confederate government soon after the beginning of hostilities.