Catherine Devereux Edmondston

Catherine Ann Devereux Edmondston (October 10, 1823 – January 3, 1875) was an American diarist, planter, and slave owner. She and her husband owned Looking Glass Plantation and Hascosea Plantation in Halifax County, North Carolina, which were given from her father as part of her dowry. They enslaved eighty-eight people on their plantations. Edmondston wrote extensively in her diary about her life during the American Civil War and on her plantation. She authored short essays supporting the Lost Cause of the Confederacy and penned Confederate patriotic poems.