Ida Dulany's Civil War Diaries Now Available

For over a decade audiences have enjoyed Andrew's "The Road to Appomattox" from his 3rd CD Turning Pages, and its haunting story of a Virginia farm boy's date with destiny during the American Civil War. Andrew often refers to part of the inspiration for the song - the diaries of his friend Susan's great-great grandmother Ida Dulany of nearby Upperville VA.

Now those diaries are available as a hardback book called In the Shadow of the Enemy: The Civil War Journal of Ida Powell Dulany (Voices Of The Civil War). Ida's words have been carefully annotated by the three editors to help bring the unbelievable stories of hardship and absurdity in war-torn rural northern Virginia to life. To read of life in a border county caught in the crossfire through the eyes of this 25-year old mother of three is deeply compelling. Now you can enjoy them for yourself.

If that piques your interest, another book that helped inspire the song is To Appomattox: Nine April Days, 1865 (Classics of War) by Burke Davis. And we also get a lot of inquiries about the Confederate guerilla raider John Singleton Mosby, the subject of Andrew's song "Letter to Colonel Mosby" (also from Turning Pages). If you'd like to know more about this fascinating character who tormented the Union Army on the northern Virginia Piedmont for the last two years of the war, we recommend Gray Ghost: The Life of Col. John Singleton Mosby by James Ramage or in his own words, The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby.

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