Person:Frances Howard (29)

Frances T. Howard wrote a wonderful biography (In and Out of the Lines) of her family covering the year of Sherman's invasion of Georgia (May 1864 - May 1865). It is probably one of the most poignant yet overlooked accounts of the sufferings that Southern women endured during the War of Northern Aggression. She wrote the book in 1870 but waited until 1905 to publish it. It was necessary for her to sell 160 acres of land in order to finance the publishing of this book. Several members of her family, who are depicted in the book, are said by many historians to be the models on which Margaret Mitchell based several of her characters in Gone With the Wind.