A Divided Heart: Letters of Sally Baxter Hampton, 1853-1862 (The South Caroliniana Series : Bibliographical and Textual ; 4)

Moving among intellectual circles, Sally Baxter (1833-1862) was the beautiful New York belle who married Frank Hampton and became mistress of Woodlands plantation. This work features her letters which tells the story of her short life as she reports on social events and plantation life and records her observations on the impending Civil War.