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Village Life in America
Caroline Cowles Richards Clarke
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A diary of a young school girl in Canandaigua, New York during the Civil War.
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Chapters
Introduction - The Villages - The Villagers
1852.—Family Notes—Famous School—Girls—Hoop Skirts
1853.—Runaways—Bible Study—Essays—Catechism
1854.—Lake Picnic—Pyramid of Beauty—Governor Clark
1855.—Preachers—James and John—Votes for Women
1856.—the Fire—Sleighing and Prayer—Father’s Advice
1857.—Truants and Pickles—Candle Stories—the Snuffers
1858.—Tableaux and Charades—Spiritual Seance
1859.—E. M. Morse—Letter from the North Pole
1860.—Gymnastics—Troublesome Comforts
1861.—President Lincoln’s Inauguration—Civil War—School Enthusiasm
1862.—Gough Lectures—President’s Call for Three Hundred Thousand Men—Mission Zeal
1863.—A Soldier’s Death—General M’Clellan’s Letter—President Lincoln’s Address at Gettysburg
1864.—Grandfather Beals’ Death—Anna Graduates
1865.—President Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address—Fall of Richmond—Murder of Lincoln
1866.—Freedman’s Fair—General Grant and Admiral Farragut Visit Canandaigua 1867.—Brother John and Wife Go to London—Lecture by Charles Dickens 1871.—Hon. George H. Stuart Speaks in Canandaigua—A Large Collection
1872.—Grandmother Beals’ Death—Biography 1880.—Anna’s Marriage