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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.”
Plantation Life in the Sixties
“1861-1865. Western North Carolina. A young wife shares her memories of the war years in “the valley of the Tucakaseega River.” In Jackson County, North Carolina.”
A Woman Rice Planter
“NEW YORK SUN columns written by the bankrupt daughter of a former South Carolina governor reveal the struggles Southerners faced after the Civil War.”
Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Casa Biamca Plantation Sc, loc:Georgetown County Sc, loc:South Carolina, loc:White House Plantation Sc, pd:1922, su:daily life, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory
Chronicles of Chicora Wood
“About one-third of this memoir by a member of a truly respected South Carolina family describes her difficulties and hardships during the war years.”
A Night of Terror
“Unknown time. Alabama. A lady recalls a story by her mother about a trying night when lonely women were brave.”
A Red-Headed Rebel
“Unknown time or place. A cute wartime story.”
Recollections of Mrs. Stonewall Jackson
“1861-1865. Virginia. A friend of the widow of the great confederate hero remembers 'the bright, attractive, the witty and charming Mrs. Jackson.” Anna Morrison Jackson, wife of Stonewall, as remembered by a niece—many of the recollections are from…
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.”