Brokenburn

The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868

John Q. Anderson

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Year: 1995
• eBook ISBN: 9780807151570
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: American Civil War History
• Index: History

This journal records the Civil War experiences of a sensitive, well-educated, young southern woman. Kate Stone was twenty when the war began, living with her widowed mother, five brothers, and younger sister at Brokenburn, their plantation home in northeastern Louisiana. When Grant moved against Vicksburg, the family fled before the invading armies, eventually found refuge in Texas, and finally returned to a devastated home. Kate began her journal in May, 1861, and made regular entries up to November, 1865. She included briefer sketches in 1867 and 1868. In chronicling her everyday activities, Kate reveals much about a way of life that is no more: books read, plantation management and crops, maintaining slaves in the antebellum period, the attitude and conduct of slaves during the war, the fate of refugees, and civilian morale. Without pretense and with almost photographic clarity, she portrays the South during its darkest hours.

Index

Abercrombie, Mr., 21

Airlie Plantation, 15

Alabama, 92n., 169 and n., 9

Alexander, Lt., 292, 320, 328

Alexander, Mr., 314

Alexander, Mrs. Mary, 234

Alexander, Mrs., 44, 50, 120, 152, 153, 196, 197, 290, 318, 320, 322, 327

Alexandria, La., 24n., 194 and n., 208n., 214, 244n., 257n., 280 and n., 304

Allen, Capt., 209

Allen, Charley, 264, 323

Allen, Mrs. Charley, see Eugenia Boss-man

Allen, Henry W., 278n.

Amis, Mrs. Henrietta, xxi, 149, 150, 151, 167, 204, 306, 841

Amis, Annie, xxi, 149, 150, 151, 154, 155, 235, 276, 306, 323, 355, 364, 367

Amis Emmett, xxi, 204, 306, 364

Anchorage, 188, 190, 208 Anderson, Col., 292

Anderson, Gen. R. H., 60n. Anderson, Mr., 201

Anderson, Mrs., 292

Anthony, Mr., 32, 203

Arkansas, the, xiii

at Vicksburg, 133 and n.

Arkansas, 83, 100n., 154, 213, 238, 244, 246, 267 and n., 275, 277, 279, 280 and n., 282, 286n., 295, 296n., 299, 300, 301, 338, 376

refugees from, 242 and n., 329

conquest of, 253n.

Federals captured in, 283

Confederate troops in, refuse to surrender, 335–36

governor of, at surrender conference, 343n.

Arkansas Post, 168 and n.

Army of Virginia, 253, 308, 316, 323, 335n.

Assumption Parish, La., 252 and n. Atlanta, Ga., 285n., 313n., 316n.

fall of, reported, 300 and n.

Austin, Cousin Jenny, xxi, 30, 34, 42, 49, 71, 80, 81, 86, 91, 92, 95, 99, 143, 145, 159, 161

marries Dr. Saunders, 160

Austin, Cousin Titia (Letitia), xxi, 34, 80, 81, 86, 91, 92, 96, 99, 143, 145

marries Charles Frazer, 93–94 and n.

Austin, Uncle, 95, 224

marries, 304

Austin, Texas, 242, 255, 356, 357

Aunt Lucy (housekeeper), 7, 9, 42, 51, 63, 64, 171, 331

runs away, 35

fights with Jane, 170–72

child of, dies with measles, 176

berates mistress, 209

Baily, Charles, 65

Baker, Mr., 106, 113, 120

Ball’s Bluff, Va., 71

Banks, Gen. N. P., xvi, 118, 278n.;

threatens Alexandria, La., 194n.;

defeat at Mansfield, La., 280 and n.;

retreating, 284

Baptist, meeting of, 228

revival in

Paris, Texas, 232

church in Paris, Texas, 233 and n.

description of people at revival of, 241

Barr family, 235, 288

Barr, Joe, 205

Barr, Julia, 205, 217, 219–21, 252

Barr, Mary, 44

Barr, Mrs. Bow (Bo), 176, 193, 215, 217, 305

Bartow, Col. F. S., 45 and n.

Bass, Mr., 147

Bass, Mrs., see Amelia Scott

Bass, Mollie, 66, 144

Bass, Polk, 144

Bass, Theresa, 66, 86, 120, 144

Bastrop, La., 205, 299 and n., 304;

Walker’s division at, 295n.

Yankee depredations at, 325

Baton Rouge, La., xii, 84, 98, 115, 128, 133n., 252n.

Baxter, Mrs., 273

Bayou DeSaird (La.), 206, 367

Bayou Macon, 80 and n., 89, 95, 119, 127, 181, 187, 138, 151, 153, 168, 165n., 168n., 169, 174, 176, 180, 188, 189, 199, 200, 209, 267

Bear Lake, La., 209

Beauregard, Gen. P. G. T., 92n., 100n.-102, 108, 117 and n., 211, 213n., 244, 290, 327

rumored killed, 326 and n.

Bedford, Mrs., 221

Bell, Mrs., 141

Bellevue, La., 222 and n.

Belmont, Mo., 69 and n., 71

Bence, Mrs., 52

Benton, Capt., 164

Benton, Mrs., 318

Benton’s Artillery, 164

Bernard, Mrs., 80

Bethel, Va., 31 and n.

Birchett, Capt. George, 312, 315, 318, 319, 324, 336, 341, 343–45, 347

Blackmore, Mrs., 255

Blackwood’s Magazine, 40n., 42

Bladen Springs, Ala., xxi, 243, 349, 371

Blakely, Mr. 152, 163

Blanchard, Gen. Albert G., 189 and n.

troops of, 139

Blankenship, Miss., 58, 71

Blanton, Mrs., 139

Bledsoe, Mr., 62, 126

Bledsoe, Miss., 124

Blount, Gen. J. G., 253 and n.

Bocage, Miss., 255

Bohanan, Mrs. Ann, 54

Bolivar County, Miss., 143

Bonham, Belle, 261

Bonham, Mrs. Mary T., 259–62

Bonham, Tex., 244 and n., 315

Boone, Capt., 326

Boone, Dr., 315, 319, 330

Boone, Miss Kate, see Kate Boone

Ragan, Mrs. John Ragan Boone, Mr., 334

Booth, Mrs., 104

Booth, John Wilkes, 333 and n., 341 and n.

Booth, Pattie, 104

Booths, the, 21

Boren, Capt., 319, 324, 352

Boren, Julia, 328

Boston Mountain (Pea Ridge), Ark., 98 and n.

Bowling Green, Ky., 90

Bowman House, Jackson, Miss., 101, 143

Bowmar, Dr., 153

Bowmar, Hutchins (Hutch), 67, 284, 321, 355, 360

Bowmar, J. H., 289

Boyd, Mrs., 37, 39

Boydton Station, Va., 315

Boyer, Joe, 52

Boyle, Maj., 84

Boyle, Thomas R., 94 n.

Bradforte, Col., 325–26, 339, 341, 843, 346

Bradforte, Mrs., 325–26, 329, 339, 341, 343

Bragg, Gen. Braxton, 178–79, 248, 253, 263

commands at Vicksburg, 180

Breckinridge, Clifton Rodes, 286n.

Breckinridge, John Cabell, 120 and n., 126 and n., 181, 286n.

Bridges, Allen, 132, 140

death of, 264

Brigham, Capt., 303–304

Briscoe, Claud, death of, 264

Brokenburn Plantation, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xviii, xx, xxi, 3, 88, 48, 82, 108, 186n., 205, 209–10, 212, 245, 262, 309, 314n., 846, 352, 365, 368;

area of, xi

description of, 4–11;

house servants at, 8

flight from, 194

My Brother returns to, 350;

conditions at, after the war, 368;

Stones return to, 364

overflowed, 375

Broughton, Rhoda, xviii, 375 and n.

Bruce, Mrs., 307, 317, 322–23, 327

Bry, Judge Henry, 322n.

Bryan, Maj., 366

Buck, Capt., 286, 329, 332, 337, 341, 343

Buckner, Beverly, xiv, xvi, xxi, 28, 70–71, 73, 81, 86, 88, 91, 101, 124, 131, 153, 156, 164, 186, 189n., 191, 193, 198–200, 203, 215, 218, 269, 317, 349, 365

dies, 309

Buckner, Dr. C. B., xx, 16, 19, 28, 70–72, 81, 92ff., 99, 101–103, 108, 113–14, 125, 136, 140, 142–43, 149, 153, 168, 164, 171, 174, 180, 194, 205, 217–18, 243, 263, 265, 279, 334, 349, 350, 371

Buckner, Mrs. C. B. (Aunt Laura), xiv, xvi, 11, 28, 46, 48, 70ff, 81, 86, 88, 91, 95, 99, 101–103, 105, 124, 142–43, 145, 149, 150, 152, 153, 156, 157, 159, 160, 161, 164, 170, 171, 172, 182, 185, 189n., 192–93, 198ff., 208, 210–11, 215–16, 218 and n., 219, 243, 264–65, 269, 365

biography, xx–xxi

dies, 349

Buckner, Capt., ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Forward
• Preface
• Introduction
• Introduction: Writing the War
• In Retrospect
• 1861: “Our Cause is just”
• 1862: “These troublous times”
• 1863: “Strangers in a strange land”
• 1864: “Disaster and despair”
• 1865: “The darkest hour”
• 1867: “The burden of defeat”
• 1868: “The outlook is brighter”
• Index