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- Collection: Items by Publication Date: 1860s
Civil War Reminiscences
Memoir of Nathaniel Macon, of North Carolina
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…
Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession: With a Narrative of Personal Adventures Among the Rebels“During the latter part of 1861, this fiery Knoxville newspaper editor became so obnoxious to the confederates that he sought safety in the Great…
Sack and Destruction of the City of Columbia, S.C.: To Which is Added a List of the Property Destroyed“5,000 copies issued. Originally published in the Columbia Daily Phoenix. A special edition was printed on bank-note paper, interleaved, very rare.…
The McDonalds; or, The Ashes of Southern Homes. A Tale of Sherman's March“May be fiction, reviewed in THE LAND WE LOVE, III (1867), 270-272.”
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…
Inside: A Chronicle of Secession.“An autobiography of the Presbyterian minister (under a pseudonym), offers a graphic account of the problems of a Unionist in Austin, Texas during the…
An Errand to the South in the Summer of 1862“The Rev. W. Wyndham Malet was Vicar of Ardeley, near Buntingford, Hertfordshire, England. He came to America to visit his sister at Conway, SC. He…
Wilmington During the Blockade