Scope and Contents Diary entries are sporadic. In the preface to A Rebel Came Home: The Diary and Letters of Floride Clemson, 1863-1866, editors Charles M. McGee, Jr. and Ernest M. Lander, Jr. note that "the diary contains three sustained narratives: Floride's trip to Niagara in the summer of 1863; the journey from Beltsville, Maryland, to Pendleton, South Carolina, that she and her mother made in the last days of 1864; and the final illness of Floride's grandmother, Mrs....