(035263) Edmondston, Catherine Ann Devereux. Journal Of A Secesh Lady: The Diary Of Catherine Ann Devereux Edmondston, 1860-1866. Raleigh, NC: Division Of Archives & Histo, 1979. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Large thick 8vo. 850 pages. Very Good with no DJ. Color frontis., B&W Illustrations. Gray cloth with gold lettering on spine.Edited by Beth G. Crabtree and James Welch Patton. Catherine Ann Devereaux Edmondston, diarist and member of the planter aristocracy of Halifax County, NC, was one of six daughters of Thomas Pollock (17 Nov. 1793–7 Mar. 1869) and Catherine Ann Bayard Johnson Devereux (1796–18 July 1836). Her sisters included Frances Ann (Mrs. Henry W. Miller), Honoria (Mrs. Robert Cannon), Sophia Chester (Mrs. Josiah Turner, Jr.), Mary Bayard (Mrs.William J. Clarke), Elizabeth (Mrs. Thomas F. Jones), and Susan Devereux, a half sister through her father's second marriage. Her only brother was John Devereux, chief quartermaster of North Carolina during the Civil War and a planter in Bertie County (Plantation Life, North Carolina, Halifax County, Personal Narratives, Diaries)
