Cabbages and Caissons: A Record of Daily Life during the Civil War in East Tennessee

On Sunday, January 1, 1860, 20-year-old Lizzie Anderson began writing a diary from a place called Hackberry Bend, in Roane County, East Tennessee, a lost community in what is now a part of Loudon County. Lizzie's father, Joseph Anderson, owned a warehouse and ran a dry goods store, boarding house, and post office in the little community of roughly 300 people across the river from the Town of Loudon. In 1863, the Anderson Farm would become ground zero for the skirmish at Huff's Ferry, locate...