{"id":21478,"date":"2015-10-28T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=21478"},"modified":"2015-10-28T01:07:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T06:07:58","slug":"civil-war-diary-edited-by-apsu-faculty-wins-duke-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2015\/10\/28\/civil-war-diary-edited-by-apsu-faculty-wins-duke-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War diary edited by APSU faculty wins Duke award"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – In 1862, the author of \u201cThe American Stud Book,\u201d a breed registry for thoroughbred horses, became one of the least popular people in Montgomery County. His name was Col. Sanders Bruce, and as an officer in the Union Army, he oversaw the military occupation of Clarksville during the Civil War.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell upon Christmas day Colonel Bruce with his \u2018whiskey jug\u2019 and several regiments took possession of this place and here they have been ever since,\u201d Nannie Haskins Williams, a 16-year-old Clarksville resident, wrote in her diary a year later. \u201cAnd here I am too still writing in my journal about those detestable blue coats for whom I have such a disgust.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Civil<\/a>

Civil War diary edited by Austin Peay State University faculty wins Duke award<\/p><\/div>\n

Since last fall, readers and historians have delighted over these intimate details from the Civil War, thanks to the University of Tennessee Press\u2019 publication of \u201cThe Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams: A Southern Woman\u2019s Story of Rebellion and Reconstruction, 1863-1890.\u201d<\/p>\n

The work\u2014edited by Dr. Minoa Uffelman, Austin Peay State University associate professor of history; Ellen Kanervo, APSU professor of communication; Eleanor Williams, Montgomery County historian; and Phyllis Smith, former president of the Friends of Fort Defiance\u2014was recently honored with the General Basil W. Duke Literary Award, which is given to reissued books or diaries that present personal and accurate histories of the Civil War from a Southern perspective.<\/p>\n

“The book won for two reasons,\u201d Thomas Wells, with UT Press, said. \u201cIt was expertly edited, which cut to the heart of Nannie Haskin\u2019s narrative, and the diary itself presented a picture of occupied middle Tennessee and the troubled home front, which is garnering more and more attention from scholars of the Civil War.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Aaron Astor, associate professor of history at Maryville College, used the diary as a source for his recently published essay, \u201cThe Militia Spirit: Lexington and Clarksville Militias and the Making of Civil War Armies.\u201d The book\u2019s popularity among academics, like Astor, and the reading public is causing the Press tobegin work on a second printing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe success of the book is due in no small part to Minoa and her editorial team both investing their time and inquiry into their historical subject and pushing Nannie\u2019s story out to the wider public,\u201d Wells said.<\/p>\n

Nannie\u2019s name became prominent among historians and Civil War enthusiasts in the early 1990s when excerpts of her diary were used in Ken Burns\u2019 award-winning PBS documentary \u201cThe Civil War.\u201d Her daughter donated the Civil War portion of the diary to the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville, TN in 1961.<\/p>\n

The postwar diary disappeared until the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill purchased it from an antique dealer. The four local researchers spent years combing through these and other documents, with Smith transcribing the entries while the others worked on providing the historical context for the book<\/p>\n

The book is available at APSU\u2019s Ann Ross Bookstore, the Fort Defiance Interpretive Center, The Customs House Museum and online at www.amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – In 1862, the author of \u201cThe American Stud Book,\u201d a breed registry for thoroughbred horses, became one of the least popular people in Montgomery County. His name was Col. Sanders Bruce, and as an officer in the Union Army, he oversaw the military occupation of Clarksville during the Civil War. \u201cWell upon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[4020,23,27002,262,1485,825,1050,1904,3338,5533,1483,6233,4472,160,6234,4950,6236,12472,3292,23784,6574,23678,27001],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-5Aq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21479,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21478\/revisions\/21479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}