Another Year Finds Me in Texas

A work of exhaustive research and devoted scholarship . . . and a delightful and informative read. ~Civil War Book Review

A rich interpretation by Tongate of a volatile period in Texas history witnessed by a unique and engaging diarist. ~Journal of Southern History

A valuable look at the daily lives of women, of a Texas community, and of the Civil War home front. ~Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Tongate has done a masterful job of editing. ~Texas Books in Review

Lucy Pier Stevens’s diary illuminates the workings of a slaveholding household, the ebb and flow of civilian morale, the ways in which Texas stood apart from the rest of the Confederacy, and the reading habits of a literate family, among many other things. The diary’s immediacy and rich detail recommend it to anyone interested in the southern home front during the final years of a profoundly disruptive crisis. ~Gary W. Gallagher, University of Virginia, author of The Union War

Another Year Finds Me in Texas is a charming Civil War diary of a young Ohio woman, trapped in the Lone Star state for the war’s duration. From epidemics to love triangles, from births to funerals, Lucy Pier Stevens’s journal of the wartime South makes for fascinating reading. For scholars and students alike, Vicki Tongate’s attentive narration provides the fullest possible contextualization for Stevens’s personal account—and brings to life the human dramas reflected in this critical era. ~Catherine Clinton, Denman Chair of American History, University of Texas at San Antonio