Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Frances Woolfolk Wallace Diary, #3063-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Full text of diary, March 19-August 25 1864

Microfilm copy and typed transcription available.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1954

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, March 2011

This collection was processed with support from the sponsorship of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1993.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Alabama--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• Army spouses--Confederate States of America--Diaries.
• Confederate States of America--Description and travel.
• Confederate States of America--Economic conditions.
• Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Diaries (Blank-books)
• Travelers--Confederate States of America--Diaries.
• Tuskegee (Ala.)--Social conditions.
• Wallace, Frances Woolfolk, b. 1835.
• Wallace, Philip Hugh, fl. 1864.
• Women travelers--Confederate States of America--Diaries.
• Women--Confederate States of America--Social conditions.

Frances W. Wallace of Paducah, Ky., was the wife of Philip Hugh Wallace, a Confederate officer in Alabama.

The collection is a diary, March-August 1864, kept by Frances W. Wallace during a journey to and from her home in Kentucky to visit her husband; a two-month stay at Tuskegee, Ala.; and shorter stays at Nashville, Memphis, Vicksburg, Mobile, Montgomery, and other places along the route. The diary describes travel details, scarcities and destruction observed, persons Wallace met, and financial and other anxieties. Extended descriptions of life in Tuskegee, including activities of women, are included.