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Eliza Frances Andrews

Eliza Frances Andrews

Dates:

August 10, 1840—January 21, 1931

Georgia Connections

Washington, Wilkes County

Rome, Floyd County, Moved to Rome, GA, in 1911 and lived there until her death. She is buried in the family plot in Washington, GA.

Biography

Notes of Interest

Andrews is best known for her War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865, one of the most compelling first-person accounts of the Civil War home front, published in 1908.

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