Cornelia Peake McDonald
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Peake was born in 1822 in Alexandria, Virginia. She was the youngest of six children of Dr. Humphrey Peake and Annie Linton Lane. She married Angus William McDonald in 1847 in Hannibal, Missouri. The couple would have nine children.[2]
During the Civil War, her husband was away from Winchester serving as the colonel of the 7th Virginia Cavalry, leaving Cornelia to stay home with the children. (He would die in December 1864, leaving her a widow.) She kept a detailed diary during the Civil War, which was published in 1875, with a second edition in 1934. It was reprinted in 2003.
Works
- A woman's Civil War: a diary, with reminiscences of the war from March 1862 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992), Template:ISBN
References
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- ↑ Descendants of William Peake Template:Webarchive. Cornelia was the second wife of McDonald, an 1817 graduate of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. valdosta.edu
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