The aftermath of Virginia’s vote to join the Confederate states quickly fills the pages of Catherine’s journal, as war tightens its grip on Northern Virginia. Middleburg resident Catherine Broun visited battlefields, worked in area war hospitals, supplied soldiers, and even smuggled goods across the Potomac River from the United States into the Confederacy.

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