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Captain Ridley’s Journal, Part 1

"April 17-June 12, 1865. Central North Carolina, northern South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee. A remarkable clear description of a defeated Confederate soldier’s difficult trek home to Tennessee, from the surrender of his unit in North Carolina."

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, milt:Army of Tennessee, pd:1895, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:diary

The Farm and the Fireside: Sketches of Domestic Life in War and Peace.

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Flower de Hundred: The Story of a Virginia Plantation

“Life before and during the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Flowerdew Hundred Plantation, loc:Virginia, pd:1890, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:Flowerdew Hundred Plantation, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern

Vivid War Experiences at Ripley, Miss

“Letter written by Cole's mother to "Cousin Blanche" of Franklin, TN, on November 2, 1862, described the realities of the war near her home at Ripley, Mississippi.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Mississippi, loc:ripley MS, pd:1893, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Evablina -- Last of the Old Virinia Slaves

“General. A remembrance of a loyal family servant.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:Somerset Va, loc:Stafford County Va, loc:Virginia, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory

Letters of a War Correspondent

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, pd:1899, su:civilian, su:northern perspective, su:observer, su:political, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

War Recollections, Story of the Evacuation of Petersburg, by an Eye-Witness; A Sad and Solemn Sabbath

“April 1, 1865. Petersburg, Virginia. A personal account of the education of key city south of Richmond.”

Tags: au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Petersburg VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1894, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:education, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Memoirs

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, pd:1893, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:slavery, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

The Hidden Way to Dixie

"1863. Washington, D.C. to Richmond, Virginia. A New York businessman’s account of his trip to CSA."

Tags: au:male, era:1860s, era:Civil War, su:confederate, su:economics, su:military, su:travel, su:union, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Occurrences at Lee's Surender

“April 1865. Appomattox Court House, Virginia. An eyewitness remembers many of the details of the historic surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Appomattox VA, loc:Baltimore MD, pd:1894, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

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