March 7, 2021
American Civil War Chronicles current status:
There are 22,960 total posts. Of these, 1,814 have been published, 9,289 are scheduled, and 11,840 are in draft
I’ve just finished scheduling War Diary of a Union Woman in the South, which has 84 total entries. It’s by Dora Richards Miller (image on right)— Born in St. Thomas in the Danish Virgin Islands and raised in the Frederiksted, St. Crois home of a grandmother who had freed all her late husband’s slaves, Dora Richards started her diary as a single, pro-Union, 25-year-old woman in New Orleans, Louisiana. She also wrote A West Indian Slave Insurrection, a narrative about her experience during the slave revolt while in St. Croix.
I am currently scheduling Diary of Belle Edmondson. So far there are over 225 new entries, all from1864 and scheduled to be published in 2024. I may publish selected earlier material from a book published in 2004.
The book is a compilation of previously unpublished material from the 1860s. The copyright term for unpublished material is 70 years after the death of the author, so the individual letters and diary entries are not copyrightable. However, the selection and arrangement of those letters and diary entries into a compilation is protected by copyright. Use of selected material from that compilation would not be an infringement of copyright and would be covered under fair use provisions and limitation on copyright.