SARAH LOUIS WADLEY PAPERS, #1258, 1849-1886
Diary and miscellaneous papers of Wadley, who lived in Tangipahoa and Ouachita Parishes,
Louisiana, and near Macon, Georgia. Entries document the opinions and experiences of a young
La. woman just before and during the Civil War. Included are mentions of "perfidious
abolitionists" (1860), trepidation concerning the impending war
(1860), the offering of church communion to blacks (1861), and a long lamentation over the defeat of the Confederacy (1865). Microfilm available.
