Diary of a Union Lady, 1861-1865

Rumor, gossip, and innuendo are the weapons of the home front, and no one wielded them with quite the aplomb of Maria Lydig Daly. Her richly detailed comments on everything from inept Union generals to Dorothea Dix?s appearance provide the liveliest memoir to emerge from a Northern noncombatant. Daly was the wife of?a prominent New York City judge whose connections allowed her to meet many major figures involved in Northern military and diplomatic strategy. Despite catty comments about Mrs. Lincoln and less-than-flattering appraisals of Union generalship, Daly could be sympathetic toward the suffering of the soldiers. She noted the fear with which many viewed the draft, seeing it as a terrible incursion on liberty, but she understood that the times called for severe measures.

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3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-23-2001; Engaging book, preachy introduction; Maria Lydig Daly seems to have had an opinion about just about anything and did not hold back from sharing them in her diary. Sometimes she's just dead wrong, other times she issues a telling observation. We need all we can get about...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-23-2001; Engaging book, preachy introduction; Maria Lydig Daly seems to have had an opinion about just about anything and did not hold back from sharing them in her diary. Sometimes she's just dead wrong, other times she issues a telling observation. We need all we can get about...; read full review | report as inappropriate