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Fannie A. Beers
1832–1894
Best remembered for a vivid Civil War memoir, she turned personal experience into a firsthand account of life behind Confederate lines. Her writing offers a rare, direct view of wartime Richmond through the eyes of a woman who lived it.
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About the author
Born in North Carolina in 1832, she became known as an American writer whose best-known book, A Woman's War Record, 1861–1865, drew on her own experiences during the Civil War.
During the war, she worked in hospitals in Richmond, Virginia, and later wrote about those years with a strong sense of immediacy and detail. That memoir has remained her most recognized work and is valued as a personal account of everyday life and service in the Confederate capital.
She died in 1894. Reliable pages about her are available, but I couldn't confirm a suitable portrait image from those sources, so no profile image is included.