TY - BOOK ID - 77904994 TI - A Union woman in Civil War Kentucky AU - Peter, Frances Dallam AU - Smith, John David AU - Cooper, William PY - 2000 SN - 0813148111 9780813148113 0813121442 9780813121444 0813196361 9780813196367 9780813153735 0813153735 PB - Lexington University Press of Kentucky DB - UniCat KW - Women KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - Peter, Frances Dallam, KW - Lexington (Ky.) KW - Kentucky KW - United States KW - Kentuck KW - US-KY KW - KY KW - Ken. KW - Kent. (State) KW - Bluegrass State KW - Commonwealth of Kentucky KW - Virginia KW - Fayette County (Ky.) KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77904994 AB - Frances Peter was one of the eleven children of Dr. Robert Peter, a surgeon for the Union army. The Peter family lived on Gratz Park near downtown Lexington, where nineteen-year-old Frances began recording her impressions of the Civil War. Because of illness, she did not often venture outside her home but was able to gather a remarkable amount of information from friends, neighbors, and newspapers. Peter's candid diary chronicles Kentucky's invasion by Confederates under Gen. Braxton Bragg in 1862, Lexington's month-long occupation by Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, and changes in attitude among the ER -