The Journal of Julia Le Grand, New Orleans, 1862-1863

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Preface

The period, the place, the circumstances of this diary are replete with the romance of the great war that made for the Confederate States of America the glorious name in history which is the rich inheritance of our people today. The story of New Orleans, the proud, the beautiful city, in her thraldom under Butler and Banks, is here interwoven with a family chronicle. But it is not merely a graphic recital of thrilling events. The writer, a lady of rare intellectual powers, of fine attainments, and great beauty of character, suffuses her pages with the charm of her own personality. Now humorous, now pathetic, as she tells of the trials and mortifications to which she and her friends were subjected, she preserves always a certain elevation of thought, a dignity of soul, displaying in the stress and strain of her environment, noble traits of patience, forbearance and charity.

Ardently patriotic, she claimed two States for her allegiance, Maryland and Louisiana, and this volume should appeal especially, therefore, to the Confederates of these two Commonwealths. Though a resident of Louisiana from her girlhood, she was born in ** Maryland, my Maryland,'* and was of Maryland ancestry.

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Texas also may lay claim to Julia LeGrand, for here she spent the latter part of her life ; here she married and died.

But to all Confederates, wherever found, who love and remember the Cause to which their generous youth was pledged; and to all their descendants, the **Sons** and ** Daughters'' of the Confederate South, this Journal may be commended.

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