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Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Published 2009. Hardcover, xvi + 195 pp.; 24 cm; First Edition; illustrated with black-and-white illustrations and a map.
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In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine show mild shelf wear. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Signed by co-editor Mary Lynne Gasaway Hill on the title page in black ink. Pictorial dust jacket has light bumping and creasing to the edges and corners with mild shelf wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.The diary of Sallie McNeill (1840-1867), kept from age eighteen until her early death, on the Levi Jordan Plantation in Brazoria County, Texas. A student and then graduate of the Female Department of Baylor College at Independence, McNeill recorded antebellum plantation life, the Civil War from the Confederate home front, and the upheaval of Reconstruction, alongside an educated young woman's reflections on faith, ambition, and her decision not to marry. Edited from the surviving manuscript by McNeill's descendant Ginny McNeill Raska and by Mary Lynne Gasaway Hill, whose work on the diary grew out of the archaeological field school at the Levi Jordan Plantation. Number 109 in the Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University.Contents: Sallie's Family and Friends; Two Years Spent at Independence; Secluded and Remote from the Busy World; God Help Our Cause; No Concessions to Make; Epilogue; Appendix A, Baylor Classmates and Faculty; Appendix B, Letter to Sallie McNeill from Charlotte T. Nuckols; Notes; Bibliography; Index.