Diary of Magdalen Elizabeth Wilkinson Keith for the years 1862-1865. Includes mostly day to day affairs and gossip, with occassional references to the War - particularly in early 1865.
Willis writes from the Confederate Army of the Potomac, two miles from the Chickahominy River, on the privations of camp [though he is accompanied by a slave, Paris], and the expectation of a large scale engagement. He is spiritied by news of Stonewall Jackson's successes.
Willis writes from the centre of the Army of Richmond of the loses of the 5th and 6th South Carolina Regiments, skirmishes around camp and his concern for James Island, his family and the location of their slaves
Partial note, possibly from Robert Woodward Barnwell, to unknown recounting a recent unnamed battle. The author writes "such a sight as that field of slain I never dreamed of." ca. 1862.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of a Jewish man from Poland, described of a "Polish Jew of rank." From the article "Poland over-ground and under-ground" by John Ross Browne, published in the November 1862 edition of Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
Black-and-white offset print reproduction of Jewish men from Poland. From the article "Poland over-ground and under-ground" by John Ross Browne, published in the November 1862 edition of Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
![053. Willis Keith to Anna Bella Keith -- [Sept?] 22, 1862.](https://iiif.library.cofc.edu/iiif/2/24936/full/200,/0/default.jpg)
