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Charlotte St. J. (Charlotte St. Julien) Ravenel

d. 1880

A South Carolina diarist whose writing offers a rare firsthand look at daily life in the Civil War era, especially in Berkeley County in 1865. Little biographical information is easy to confirm, but her surviving journal has kept her voice alive for later readers.

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Two diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865

Two diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865

by Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan, Susan R. (Susan Ravenel) Jervey, Charlotte St. J. (Charlotte St. Julien) Ravenel

About the author

Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, also listed as Charlotte St. Julien Ravenel, is known today through Two Diaries from Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May 1865. That work points to her as a firsthand observer of Southern life during the closing months of the Civil War, and her writing is valued for the immediacy and local detail that only a diary can provide.

Reliable public information about her life appears to be limited. Genealogical records connect her with the Ravenel family of South Carolina and indicate that she died in 1880, but beyond that, many personal details are not easy to verify from readily available sources.

Even so, her diary remains an important historical window. For listeners interested in memoir, regional history, and women's voices from the nineteenth century, her work offers an intimate perspective on a world in the middle of dramatic change.