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Loyalty on the Frontier, or, Sketches of Union Men of the South-West;
“Much Texas, Arkansas, especially valuable for Unionists in Arkansas and life near Fayetteville and Elk Horn Tavern, Arkansas.”
My Diary North and South
“William Howard Russell in March 1861 arrived in the United States as a special correspondent for the London Times. Landing in New York, he entered the South in April and traveled by train to the Alabama River and then to Mobile, Pensacola, and Fort…
My Cave Life in Vicksburg.: With Letters of Trial and Travel
"A valuable story of a gentlewoman's experiences under siege at Vicksburg."—Civil War Books. Most revealing for the trials endured by the inhabitants of the besieged city, told by the wife of CSA colonel, in her own words which need no…
Memoir of Rev. John L. Prichard,late pastor of the First Baptist Church, Wilmington, N. C.,
“Lynchburg, VA, later in Wilmington, NC, ministering to wounded during the war. Based on Prichard's diary.”
North America
“Anthony Trollope, the well-known English author, made a trip to America in August 1861. He spent most of his time in the North and in Canada, but he dipped into the South along the northern border on a trip from Baltimore to Missouri. He visited…
Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove; or, Scenes and Incidents of the War in Arkansas
“An account of life in and around Washington County, Arkansas, during the first years of the war, the author wrote as a Unionist surrounded by Confederates.”
Recollections of Henry Watkins Allen: Brigadier-General Confederate States Army, Ex-Governor of Louisiana.
“Wartime governor of Louisiana.”