The journal of Julia Le Grand, New Orleans, 1862-1863; . wo novels, besides theportion of her war Journal here given. Of hergifted aunts literary works, her niece, , says: ^^In her happy girlhood had written, purely for her own pleasure,a novel which is a vivid picture of the life of BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 33 Southern people in those days. [It is called*Our Neighborhood, and is dedicated to Albert Harrison.] After her marriage,Mrs. Waitz wrote another novel, dealing with thedreadful days following the close of the war. Thefragment of her diary now offered to the pub
The journal of Julia Le Grand, New Orleans, 1862-1863; . wo novels, besides theportion of her war Journal here given. Of hergifted aunts literary works, her niece, , says: ^^In her happy girlhood had written, purely for her own pleasure,a novel which is a vivid picture of the life of BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 33 Southern people in those days. [It is called*Our Neighborhood, and is dedicated to Albert Harrison.] After her marriage,Mrs. Waitz wrote another novel, dealing with thedreadful days following the close of the war. Thefragment of her diary now offered to the public,owes its preservation to chance. This diary,which extended from the beginning of the waruntil the surrender of General Lee, had beenwritten for a little niece [Mrs. Edith Pye Wee-den], and Julia, fearing their baggage might besearched on their journeyings, destroyed it, asshe thought. The portion preserved was hiddenamong the leaves of an old novel she had beenreading aloud to her friends during the long andtedious evenings of their forced CLAUDE F. LeGRAXD Member 7th Louisiana Regiment Infantry CrescentRifles, and member Harry Hays Rifles Brother of Julia LeGrand I. Decembek 1, 1861—December 31, 1862. THE JOURNAL December 1st, 1861, New Orleans,Just completed another bundle of clothes forpoor Claude, which we hope will reach him be-fore Christmas, the other bundle having failedto reach him. Mrs. Brown (Mrs. Shepherd) wentwith me to Lyons to choose his coats and have roasted some coffee and made some cake,which we have stuffed in his pillow. I wonderhow long the poor boys head will lie peacefullyon the latter. We have cut up our flannel double-gowns to make him shirts, as everything is sodreadfully high these blockade times. I havelonged for money that I might send him manythings to gladden both, his heart and those of hiscomrades, in their darksome little log huts atManchac. We have done what we could, but havebeen cut off from further supplies, and h
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