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The electronic edition is a part of the UNC-CH digitization project, Documenting the American South, or, The Southern Experience in 19th-century America.

Transcript text typed in by Jordan Davis. Text encoded by Jordan Davis and Natalia Smith.

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Also available as a typed manuscript and microfilm of the manuscript in the Southern Historical Collection (#420) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Transcribed from: A journal, kept by Emma Florence LeConte, from Dec. 31, 1864 to Aug. 6, 1865, written in her seventeenth year and containing a detailed account of the burning of Columbia, by one who was an eyewitness / transcript prepared by the Historical Records Survey of the Works Progress Administration, May, 1938. 86 p. From the manuscript (#420) in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Emma Florence LeConte was the daughter of scientist Joseph LeConte.

Published as "When the World Ended: The Diary of Emma LeConte" (Earl Schenk Miers, ed., 1957).