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- Collection: Items by Publication Date: 1920s
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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 invading-and mention Union balloon observers.”
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.”
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 opinions of the combat, in three letters to a merchant in Richmond.”
Life on the Old Plantation
1865. Georgia. A warm recollection of plantation days and the change brought by the war, and especially the kindness of “Uncle Wilkes.”