 Cornelia Peake McDonald

Cornelia Peake McDonald (June 14, 1822 – January 11, 1909) was an American diarist who was the author of "A Diary with Reminiscences of the War and Refugee Life in the Shenandoah Valley, 1860-1865" in which she recaps her life as a woman living in Winchester, Virginia.Her writing is significant as it recaps the views of the American Civil War from the point of a view of a woman living in one of the most counter occupied towns of the conflict.