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Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan

Best known for preserving vivid Civil War-era recollections from South Carolina, this writer helped bring together firsthand accounts of life in Berkeley County during the Confederacy’s final months. Her contribution gives the book an intimate, lived-in sense of history.

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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.

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 was an American writer and memoirist associated with Two Diaries from Middle St. John’s, Berkeley, South Carolina, February–May, 1865. In that 1921 volume, she contributed reminiscences alongside the journals of Susan R. Jervey and Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, helping preserve firsthand memories of South Carolina during the closing phase of the Civil War.

Available catalog and memorial records suggest she was born in 1849 and died in 1926. The surviving references linked to her today are brief, so many details of her life are not easy to confirm with confidence; what stands out most clearly is her role in recording and passing on personal historical memory.

For listeners coming to her work now, her appeal lies in that closeness to lived experience. Rather than writing broad military history, she is remembered for helping save everyday observations and recollections that make a turbulent moment feel immediate and human.