Draft:Mary Loughborough

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Mary Ann Webster Loughborough (August 26, 1837 - August 27, 1887) was a writer and publisher. She wrote a personal account of the Siege of Vicksburg based on her diary.

She graduated from Monticello Seminary in Godfrey, Illinois in 1853

She was born in New York and grew up in St. Louis Missouri. She married attorney James Loughborough (1833-1876). Hope, Arkansas was named for their daughter. She published Arkansas Ladies' Journal which became Southern Ladies' Journal.

She had six children. A photo of her and her son Depmar is extant.

Writings

 * My Cave Life in Vicksburg, about her experiences during the Civil War