Josie Underwood: The Civil War-Era Socialite Who Owned Slaves, Hated Lincoln, and Loved the Union
History Unplugged Podcast
History Unplugged
4.2 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2022
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 1:29.3 | Josie Underwood was a well-educated outspoken member of a politically prominent family |
| 1:34.0 | in Bowling, Green, Kentucky during the Civil War. She also left behind one of the few accounts |
| 1:38.8 | of the Civil War written by Southern women sympathetic to the Union. Her diary begins several |
| 1:43.4 | months before the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861. The Philistines are upon us, |
| 1:48.8 | 20-year-old Josie writes in her diary, leaving no question about the alarms she feels when |
| 1:52.7 | Confederate soldiers occupy her once-peaceful town. Today I'm speaking to Nancy Dishier-Baird, |
| 1:58.1 | who published Josie's Civil War diary. It offers a firsthand account of a family |
| 2:02.4 | that owns slaves in a post-Lincoln, yet remained loyal to the Union. Josie's father, Warner, played an important role in keeping Kentucky |
| 2:09.6 | from seceding. Among the many highlights of the diary is Josie's record of meeting the president and wartime |
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