You are cordially invited to read a 150 year-old blog.

The Journal of Caroline Baker [Ellett] Littlepage, of King William County, Virginia, from 1 June 1864 to 22 June 1867, is now online at www.thelittlepagejournal.com. For the next three years each of her entries will be posted on the 150th anniversary of the day they were written. To assist the reader the site also contains family and neighborhood background information as well as footnotes.

This is not just-another-civil-war-diary. In 1864 Mrs. Caroline Littlepage of Woodbury turned 54. She and her husband Lewis had produced thirteen children, nine surviving. But widowed the previous year, and with war at her doorstep, the small plantation was now her responsibility. Caroline had been keeping a daily journal for almost a decade. She wrote in spite of the war, not because of it. Her only extant volume is a rare window into the daily lives of an extended family, and a rural tidewater Virginia community during a time of stress and change 150 years ago. That volume, and a transcript, was donated to the Virginia Historical Society in 2003. Thanks to the VHS and members of Caroline’s family for making this blog possible.
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