<DIV>In 1863, while living in Clarksville, Tennessee, Martha Ann Haskins, known to friends<BR> and family as Nannie, began a diary. <I>The Diary of Nannie Haskins Williams: A Southern<BR> Woman’s Story of Rebellion and Reconstruction, 1863?1890</I> provides valuable insights into<BR> the conditions in occupied Middle Tennessee. A young, elite Confederate sympathizer,<BR> Nannie was on the cusp of adulthood with the expectation of becoming a mistress in<BR> a slaveholding society. The war ended this prospect, and her life was forever changed.<BR> Though this is the first time the diaries have been published in full, they are well known<BR> among Civil War scholars, and a voice-over from the wartime diary was used repeatedly<BR> in Ken Burns’s famous PBS program <I>The Civil War.</I><BR><br> Sixteen-year-old Nannie had to come to terms with Union occupation very early in<BR> the war. Amid school assignments, young friendship, social events, worries about her<BR> marital prospects, and tension with her mother, Nannie’s entries also mixed information<BR> about battles, neighbors wounded in combat, U.S. Colored troops, and lawlessness in the<BR> surrounding countryside. Providing rare detail about daily life in an occupied city, Nannie’s<BR> diary poignantly recounts how she and those around her continued to fight long after<BR> the war was over?not in battles, but to maintain their lives in a war-torn community.<BR><br> Though numerous women’s Civil War diaries exist, Nannie’s is unique in that she also<BR> recounts her postwar life and the unexpected financial struggles she and her family experienced<BR> in the post-Reconstruction South. Nannie’s diary may record only one woman’s<BR> experience, but she represents a generation of young women born into a society based<BR> on slavery but who faced mature adulthood in an entirely new world of decreasing farm<BR> values, increasing industrialization, and young women entering the workforce. Civil War<BR> scholars and students alike will learn much from this firsthand account of coming-of-age<BR> during the Civil War.<BR><br> Minoa D. Uffelman is an associate professor of history at Austin Peay State University.<BR> Ellen Kanervo is professor emerita of communications at Austin Peay State University.<BR> Phyllis Smith is retired from the U.S. Army and currently teaches high school science in<BR> Montgomery County, Tennessee. Eleanor Williams is the Montgomery County, Tennessee,<BR> historian.</DIV>