Amanda Alcenia Strickland Washington

Born in 1846, Amanda Alcenia Strickland Washington is known for How Beauty Was Saved, and Other Memories of the Sixties, published in 1907. Catalog and archive records consistently identify her as the book's author and date her birth to 1846.

Her book is a short collection of recollections set in Civil War-era Louisiana. Rather than offering a grand military history, it focuses on lived experience: girls riding to school through an unsettled countryside, encounters with soldiers and raiders, and memories of plantation life and slavery as seen from her position at the time.

Very little confirmed biographical information appears to be readily available online beyond her authorship and the surviving publication record. Even so, her work remains valuable for readers interested in personal, place-based memories of the American South during the war years.