Browse Items (155 total)
- Collection: Items by Publication Date: 1920s
The Rebel Letter“April 23, 1861. Prairie Farm, Tennessee. Volunteer state pride and Southern loyalty expressed in a young woman’s letter.”
Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman
Then and Now: Reminiscences and Historical Romance, 1856-1865“This is a chronicle of the author's experiences, primarily in North Carolina and primarily in the last half of the 19th century, life in Piedmont,…
The Muchly Married Miss Mary Boozer“1861-1865. Columbia, South Carolina. A recollection of a somewhat legendary young woman, who seemed to be “always on the street at the time the…
The Siege and Fall of Selma, Alabama
The Women of the South in War Times"Some wartime reminiscences by Southern women and the diary of Judith B. McGuire"
The Old South in Peace and War--Confiscation of Plantation“1861-1863. Mississippi. A former resident of the Vicksburg area criticizes the high-handed manner in which Union Authority “acquired” Southern…
The Southern Plantation Overseer as Revealed in His Letters
The Battle of Rio, Virginia“April 1864. Rio, Virginia. A young woman’s memory of combat near her home on the Rivanna River.”
The Battle of the Handkerchiefs“February 20, 1863. New Orleans, Louisiana. A woman remembers how she and others used their handkerchiefs to help Confederate prisoners.”