My Diary North and South

by William Howard Russell

Overview

William Howard Russell (1820–1907) was a nineteenth-century war correspondent for The Times. In 1861–2 he visited America to report on the secession crisis that had followed Abraham Lincoln's campaign to abolish slavery, in which eleven southern states had withdrawn from the United States to form their own confederacy, resulting in the American Civil War. First published in 1863, this two-volume work recounts Russell's experiences there. Based on his interviews with Lincoln, other pivotal figures, and ordinary citizens, together with his diaries and his letters to The Times, it documents his impressions of both the northern and the opposing southern states as he travelled through them. His book, thought to have been compiled in response to accusations that he was biased towards the South, provides a revealing eyewitness account of life during a landmark period in America's history. Volume 2 focuses on the horrors of the unfolding war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108041225
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	12/15/2011
Series:	Cambridge Library Collection - North American History
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.98(d)

About the Author

Eugene H. Berwanger is professor of history emeritus at Colorado State University and the author of many books, most recently British Foreign Service and the American Civil War.

William E. Gienapp is professor of history at Harvard University and the author of The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852—1856 among other books.

Table of Contents

1. Departure from Cork; 2. Arrival at New York; 3. 'St Patrick's Day' in New York; 4. Streets and shops in New York; 5. Off to the railway station; 6. A state dinner at Mr. Abraham Lincoln's; 7. Barbers' shops; 8. New York Press; 9. Dinner at General Scott's; 10. Preparations for war at Charleston; 11. Scenes on board an American steamer; 12. Portsmouth; 13. Sketches round Wilmington; 14. Southern Volunteers; 15. Slaves, their masters and mistresses; 16. Charleston; 17. Visit to a plantation; 18. Climate of the Southern States; 19. Domestic negroes; 20. By railway to Savannah; 21. The river at Savannah; 22. Slave-pens: negroes on sale or hire; 23. Proclamation of war; 24. Mr. Wigfall on the Confederacy; 25. The River Alabama; 26. Visit to Forts Gaines and Morgan; 27. Pensacola and Fort Pickens; 28. Bitters before breakfast; 29. Judge Campbell; 30. The first blow struck; 31. Carrying arms; 32. Up the Mississippi; 33. Ride through the maize-fields; 34. Negroes; 35. War-rumours, and military movements; 36. Visit to Mr. McCall's plantation.