Sara Pryor, wife of the Virginia congressman and Confederate general Roger Pryor, looks back over a long life: a Virginia girlhood, the brilliant society of Washington in the 1850s, the hardships of the war years, and the family’s slow rebuilding in New York afterward. She writes less of herself than of the people and customs she saw.
A vivid social memoir of the nineteenth century from the Southern side, written with the outlook of its author and her class. Download the free EPUB.