Browse Items (96 total)
- Collection: Items by Publication Date: 1890s
Letters to Secretary Chase from the South, 1861
Last Days of the Confederacy: Letters from Jefferson Davis During that Period“1863-1865. General. A close associate of the Confederate president who was chaplain of the 49lh Miss. Regt. Proudly remembers his leader’s courage…
Led On! Step by Step: Scenes from Clerical, Military, Educational, and Plantation Life in the South, 1828-1898“Autobiography of the founder of Holy Communion Church Institute, later known as Porter Academy.”
Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America
Inside the Lines at Franklin“1864. Franklin, Tennessee. A former “schoolgirl of 1864” remembers the “awful battle at Franklin.”
History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians“The author lived among these tribes from 1820 until 1890.”
How it Was: Four Years Among the Rebels“This is a trustworthy account which does not attempt to record minute details, conversations, and exact dates. Mrs. Irby Morgan was married to a…
Gleanings from Southland: Sketches of Life and Manners of the People of the South Before, During, and After the War of Secession, with Extracts from the Author's Journal and Epitome of the New South.“Only edition. Cumming is best known for her JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL LIFE IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY OF TENNESSEE (1866), valuable and informative work on…
General and Governor Ross of Texas
Four Years in Rebel Capitals: An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy, From Birth to Death“1861-1865. De Leon spent most of the war years in Richmond, but his travels and comments warrant consideration. When the secession movement began De…