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Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan
A South Carolina memoirist whose Civil War recollections help bring everyday life in the Confederacy’s final months into focus. Her contribution to Two Diaries from Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865 adds a personal, grounded voice to a rare historical record.
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Two diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865 Journals kept by Miss Susan R. Jervey and Miss Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, at Northampton and Pooshee plantations, and reminiscences of Mrs. (Waring) Henagan; with two contemporary reports from federal officials.
by Susan R. (Susan Ravenel) Jervey, Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan, Charlotte St. J. (Charlotte St. Julien) Ravenel
About the author
Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan is known for her contribution to Two Diaries from Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865, a volume that preserves firsthand accounts from Berkeley County, South Carolina, during the closing months of the Civil War. Project Gutenberg and The Online Books Page both identify her as one of the writers connected with the book, and the text itself presents her section as reminiscences written in December 1917 for a meeting of "The Girls of the Sixties."
Her writing stands out for its direct, personal quality. Rather than offering a distant historical summary, she recalls the disruption of war as it reached her home region, giving readers a close view of fear, uncertainty, and daily survival in 1865.
Little reliable biographical information about her appears in the sources readily available online, so she is best introduced through the work she left behind: a vivid Civil War remembrance that helps preserve the experiences of Southern women living through a time of upheaval.