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Josie Underwood’s Civil War: An Introduction

“What a contrast between this day and the same day one year ago,” Josie Underwood recorded in her diary on February 14, 1863. “Today,” she continued, “I have been sitting quietly down, way over here in Scotland, sewing. Then I was in dear old Bowling Green, in Mrs Hall’s cellar running to the door to see what other house the Confederate troops were setting on fire.” As the daughter of a prominent Kentucky Unionist who served for two years as U.S. consul in Glasgow, Scotland, Josie Underwood experienced the American Civil War in a way few southern women did. Like most women in the occupied South, she experienced the harsh realities of war firsthand. The line between battlefield and home front was often blurred in the South—particularly for women.1 But unlike most southern women,