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Autobiography of Asa Biggs: Including a Journal of a Trip from North Carolina to New York in 1832

“Description of North Carolina events at secession time.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:North Carolina, pd:1915, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:political, su:seccession, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Texas, pd:1914, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:military, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:narrative

“Late 1864-1865. Missouri. A lady sadly recalls Union decisions to oust Confederate supports.”

Tags: au:female, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:General Order No. 11, loc:Missouri, pd:1918, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:military, su:non-slaveholding white, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

“March-April, 1865. Appomattox Court House, Virginia. The return home for a soldier at the end of the War.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Appomattox VA, loc:Virginia, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:medical, su:military, su:southern, su:travel, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

“1864-1865. Southwest Arkansas. A native of the area recalls the war years in a rural county in Southwest Arkansas.”

Tags: pd:1913

“A summary of the war years in the Alabama port city.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:1862, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Mobile Bay, loc:Alabama, loc:Mobile AL, pd:1916, su:local history, su:military, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:narrative

“Vol. 1. Volume 1 is the only one published; it includes four chapters on the Civil War; scarce hardback issue.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:North Carolina, loc:Randolph County NC, pd:1910, su:civilian, su:education, su:homefront, su:religion, su:southern, ts:biography

Tags: au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Oregon, loc:Oregon Country or, loc:Virginia, su:confederate, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:biography, ts:diary

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Apalachicola Fl, loc:Florida, pd:1916, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:memory