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Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan

A contributor to a rare Civil War-era record from South Carolina, she helps preserve the voices of women living through the chaos of 1865. Her remembered scenes add a personal, intimate layer to a book built from diaries, memory, and local history.

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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

Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan is best known as a contributor to Two Diaries From Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865. In that 1921 volume, her reminiscences appear alongside journals by Susan R. Jervey and Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, helping preserve firsthand accounts of wartime life in Berkeley County, South Carolina.

The book was published by the St. John's Hunting Club and presents Henagan not as a prolific standalone author, but as an important witness whose memories were gathered into a larger historical record. The surviving catalog and public-domain listings consistently connect her name with this one work, and they also show her under the related name Mary Rhodes Waring.

Because reliable biographical information about her life beyond this publication is scarce in the sources available here, the safest picture is a modest one: she appears as a South Carolina memoirist and contributor whose value lies in the immediacy of her Civil War recollections. For listeners interested in personal narratives of the American South, her writing offers a close, human glimpse of fear, endurance, and memory.