Anna M. Ferris diary, 1860-1863

Anna commences her diary noting that rather than daybooks, she decides to keep a journal in which she can record with greater details days of more interest and skip those in which there was little of note. She worries that year will bring sadness, and May 3, her step-mother, Hannah (Gibbons) Ferris died. Anna is a close friend of Susan Wharton. She mentions the election of Lincoln, comments that it was purely on doctrine. Comments on the country being suddenly in the midst of a civil war. Her cousin Edward B. Ferris marries at meeting in Philadelphia in 1861, bride in full "canonical" garb - white satin, veil, and orange blossoms. Few entries in 1863 as war drags on. Battle of Gettysburg.