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"Sanctified trial is the Civil War diary of a Confederate woman of strong religious faith and equally strong proslavery convictions. Eliza Rhea Anderson Fain (b. 1816), who lived in Rogersville, Tennessee, kept diaries from shortly after her marriage to Richard Gammon Fain in 1833 until her death in 1892. John N. Fain has prepared this edition of the portion of these diaries that focuses on the war years." "This diary is distinctive for its account of increasing clashes with Unionist "bushwhackers" and for its graphic description of the atrocities on both sides. The Civil War surged around…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2004University of Tennessee Press · 410 pages · 9781572333130
BiographyConfederate Personal narrativesDiariesEast Tennessee Civil War, 1861-1865HistoryMilitary HistoryPersonal narrativesSocial aspects