{"product_id":"josie-underwoods-civil-war-diary-9780813125312","title":"Josie Underwood's Civil War Diary","description":"A well-educated, outspoken member of a politically prominent family in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Josie Underwood (1840-1923) left behind one of the few intimate accounts of the Civil War written by a southern woman sympathetic to the Union. This vivid portrayal of the early years of the war begins several months before the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861. \"The Philistines are upon us,\" twenty-year-old Josie writes in her diary, leaving no question about the alarm she feels whe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNancy Disher Baird\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eHealing Kentucky: Medicine in the Bluegrass State\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eWestern Kentucky University: The First 100 Years\u003c\/i\u003e. From 1975 to 2010, she served as professor and special collections librarian at Western Kentucky University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Kentucky","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50845503848722,"sku":"9780813125312","price":41.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_635d3a3d-3f62-4a01-9208-795296fd0caa.jpg?v=1737352147","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/josie-underwoods-civil-war-diary-9780813125312","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}