Jemima Condict

Jemima Condict (1754-1779) was an American diarist who recorded everyday life and historical events that occurred in Pleasantdale, New Jersey.

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Gertrude Thomas

Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas is best known for the extensive journal she kept of her life before, during, and after the U.S. Civil War (1861-65).

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Sallie Clayton

Sarah “Sallie” Conley Clayton’s memoir, long held in the collection of the Virginia Historical Society, was published in 1999 under the title Requiem for a Lost City.

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