Browse Items (155 total)
- Collection: Items by Publication Date: 1920s
Memoirs of a Southerner, 1840-1923"Pictures of plantation life in McIntosh County seaboard served as a CSA soldier and wartime Savannah.”
Mrs. Tinsley's War Recollections, 1862-1865“1862-1863. Near Richmond, Virginia. These memoirs, written in 1911 by a plantation wife describe life in the Peninsula-while Yankee troops were…
My Greatest Childhood Sorrow“Unknown time or place. A said recollection of the effects of the war on a young boy’s neighbor.”
My Old Black Mammy“1861-1865. General. A Confederate recalled “the character and virtues of the Negroes before and during the war.”
My Christmas Dinner in 1863“December 1863. LaGrange, Georgia. A hungry Confederate captain on furlough describes the joy of eating a turkey who “died of a sore throat.”
My Confederate Grandmothers“1861-1865. Texas. A woman recalls stories about her grandmothers’ wartime experiences.”
Missouri After the War“1865. Missouri. A personal summary of the strongly divided sentiments in the Border State - just after the end of battlefield conflicts.”
Literary Women of the Sixties in North Carolina
Letters of John Letcher to J. Hierholzer, 1864-1865“November 3, 1864-May 16, 1865. Lexington, Virginia. The former governor of Virginia described the effects of the war in the valley and his own…
Life on the Old Plantation1865. Georgia. A warm recollection of plantation days and the change brought by the war, and especially the kindness of “Uncle Wilkes.”