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About Cornelia Peake McDonald
Cornelia Peake McDonald was an American diarist who was the author of A Diary with Reminiscences of the War and Refugee Life in the Shenandoah Valley, 1860-1865 in which she recaps her life as a woman living in Winchester, Virginia. Her writing is significant as it recaps the views of the American Civil War from the point of a view of a woman living in one of the most frequently re-occupied towns of the conflict. She became known as one of the "Devil Diarists of Winchester."
Everything about Cornelia Peake McDonald →- Occupation
- diarist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- June 14, 1822
- Died
- January 11, 1909