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The Soldier’s Friend; Being a Thrilling Narrative of Grandma Smith's Four Years Experience and Observation, as Matron, in the Hospitals of the South, During the late Disastrous conflict in America
“This book was published to show the horrors of war and to discourage any repetition. Nevertheless, it is more concerned with traveling from one hospital to another, by discussing the general progress of the war, and with recording many conversations…
The South As It Is: or, Twenty-One Years' Experience in the Southern States of America
“Most of this book is concerned with a factual discussion of the South; only the last three of its sixteen chapters deal with the author's personal experiences. The Reverend Ozanne was an Englishman who became a resident of the South in 1841 as an…
Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation
"This book is of outstanding value as a close-up picture of the management of confiscated and abandoned plantations along the Mississippi River which were leased to Northern speculators and managers, and in detailing the ways of enslaved working on…
Up the St. John's River
“On the Union occupation of Jacksonville, March 1863.”
Two Months in the Confederate States: Including a Visit to New Orleans Under the Domination of General Butler
“This English merchant visited the Confederate States primarily to investigate the status of debts owed by Southerners to English and foreign merchants. Corsan took ship for New Orleans, where he spent a few days before making his way through the…
A Southern Record.: The history of the Third Regiment, Louisiana Infantry
“A SOUTHERN RECORD is an exceptionally valuable commentary on conditions in the Civil War South, written by a Confederate soldier soon after the end of the conflict. Considerable portions of the narrative are transcriptions of notes kept by Tunnard,…
