she received news of the deaths of her brothers Walter and Coleman on the battlefield, further eclipsing her mood. After the defeat of the Confederacy, Stone returned in 1865 to Louisiana and found the family mansion looted and the plantation devastated. With the reconstruction, the entries become rarer; the diary ends in 1868. Personal life She was affiliated with the Madison Infantry Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Madison Parish Book Club. In 1869, she married Lieutenant Henry Bry Holmes, at Walton Bend Plantation, near Yazoo City, Mississippi. They had four children, Emmet, William, and twins Katy Bry and Amanda Julia. She died on December 28, 1907, in Tallulah, Louisiana. References Bibliography Wilson, Edmund: Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War. Oxford University Press, New York 1962, S. 258–263. 1841 births 1907 deaths 19th-century American memoirists 19th-century American women writers Writers from Mississippi American women memoirists