Marion Johnstone Ford

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Marion Johnstone Ford

A South Carolina writer whose published work preserves vivid memories of Civil War–era Southern life, she is best known for contributing the home-front and social sketches paired with Arthur Peronneau Ford’s soldier memoir. Her writing offers a rare personal window into the world that surrounded the war.

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Life in the Confederate Army Being Personal Experiences of a Private Soldier in the Confederate Army, and Some Experiences and Sketches of Southern Life

Life in the Confederate Army Being Personal Experiences of a Private Soldier in the Confederate Army, and Some Experiences and Sketches of Southern Life

by Arthur Peronneau Ford, Marion Johnstone Ford

About the author

Marion Johnstone Ford was an American writer associated with South Carolina. She is credited as the author of Some Experiences and Sketches of Southern Life, which was published together with Arthur Peronneau Ford’s Life in the Confederate Army in 1905.

Library and public-domain catalog records identify her as Marion Johnstone Ford, and some records also connect her with the name Marion Johnstone Porcher Ford. A memorial record places her birth in June 1848 in South Carolina and her death on July 7, 1907, in Aiken, South Carolina.

Her surviving work is of interest for the way it captures personal memory rather than grand historical summary. Read alongside Arthur Peronneau Ford’s military recollections, her sketches help round out the domestic and social side of Southern life in and around the Civil War era.