PUBLIC "-//Thomas Balch Library//TEXT (US::ViLeTBL::viletbl00159:: Diary of Catherine Barbara Broun 1862-1885)//EN" "viletbl00159.xml" A Guide to the Diary of Catherine Barbara Broun, 1862-1885 Diary of Catherine Barbara Broun SC 0083 Emily Hershman Thomas Balch Library © 2006 By Thomas Balch Library. All rights reserved.

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Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word, created by Stephanie Adams Hunter, 20 June 2011 Description is in English 2013-11-21 Converted to schema conforming EAD by dtd2schema.vh.xsl. A Guide to the Diary of Catherine Barbara Broun, 1862-1885 A Collection in theThomas Balch Library SC 0083 Emily Hershman

Thomas Balch Library 2006 Emily Hershman Thomas Balch Library Descriptive Summary Thomas Balch Library Diary of Catherine Barbara Broun 1862-1885 SC 0083 English The Diary of Catherine Barbara Broun collection consists of photocopied transcripts of the journal Broun kept during the Civil War era. In it she recounts such events as struggling to get a pass to travel through military lines in Washington, D.C., offering provisions to Confederate troops in the area, as well as noting the men killed or taken prisoner in local skirmishes. Despite the necessity of hosting Union cavalry and infantry units at her home, Broun was a Confederate sympathizer, describing Lee's surrender and the evacuation of Richmond as "heartbreaking." After the war, her diary focuses primarily on visits with neighbors and the purchase of household items. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Acquisition Information

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

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Digitized version available from Southern Historical Collection

Accruals

1995.0054

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Emily Hershman, 15 June 2011

Biographical Information

Catherine Barbara Broun (1820-1903) lived at Sunny Bank Farm in Middleburg, Virginia, during and after the turbulent years of the Civil War. She kept a detailed diary during this period, noting the struggles of maintaining the farm despite consistent foraging by both Union and Confederate troops. Broun's eyewitness account describes troop movements in the area, as well as the dispersal of local Confederate units such as Mosby's Rangers at war's end. After the war, Broun continued to manage Sunny Bank Farm until her death. Today, Sunny Bank Farm is a popular location for the Middleburg Hunt.

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The Diary of Catherine Barbara Broun collection consists of photocopied transcripts of the journal Broun kept during the Civil War era. In it she recounts such events as struggling to get a pass to travel through military lines in Washington, D.C., offering provisions to Confederate troops in the area, as well as noting the men killed or taken prisoner in local skirmishes. Despite the necessity of hosting Union cavalry and infantry units at her home, Broun was a Confederate sympathizer, describing Lee's surrender and the evacuation of Richmond as "heartbreaking." After the war, her diary focuses primarily on visits with neighbors and the purchase of household items.

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Adjunct Descriptive Data Bibliography Diary in the Catherine Barbara Hopkins Broun Papers #2389-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/b/Broun,Catherine_Barbara_Hopkins.html Diary of Catherine Barbara Broun (SC 0083), Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA. "Tax Break Credited in Saving Va. Land," The Washington Post 16 May 2006 (Accessed 17 June 2011). Other Finding Aid

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