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- Collection: Items by Publication Date: 1860s
Civil War Reminiscences
Hospital Pencillings: Being a Diary While in Jefferson General Hospital, Jeffersonville, Ind., and Others at Nashville, Tennessee, as Matron and Visitor"The book is less an account of scenes inside hospital walls than its title indicates. Her story is about equally divided between her observations in…
The Freedmen of Port Royal“March 25 to May 10, 1862. Port Royal and Beaufort area. South Carolina. A Northern visitor describes the efforts to educate former slaves from the…
Ten Days in Richmond
A Month's Visit to the Confederate Headquarters by an English Officer“The eyes of every Southerner are turned to England.”
The Wedding at the Parker House”Notes of black regiments at Punta Rassa, ca. 1865: The 2d and 99th U.S. Colored Infantry and 2d Florida (U.S.) Cavalry. Describes Fort Myers, the…
Personal Recollections of the War
Six Mille Lieues à Toute Vapeur“Son of George Sand and Baron Datavant was in a group with Prince Napoleon that visited USA and Canada in 1861-part of the journey was in CSA.”
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…
Wilmington During the Blockade