Browse Items (155 total)
- Collection: Items by Publication Date: 1920s
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 Old Black Mammy“1861-1865. General. A Confederate recalled “the character and virtues of the Negroes before and during the war.”
My Greatest Childhood Sorrow“Unknown time or place. A said recollection of the effects of the war on a young boy’s neighbor.”
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…
Memoirs of a Southerner, 1840-1923"Pictures of plantation life in McIntosh County seaboard served as a CSA soldier and wartime Savannah.”
Memoirs and Sketches of the Life of Henry Robinson Pollard: An Autobiography
Memories of a Long life in Virginia“Much on CSA, knew Lee and Jackson.”
Macon in the War Between the States“1861-1865. Macon, Georgia. A review of the war’s effect upon the key city in central Georgia.”
Mothers and Maidens of the Sixties“1861-1865. Near Warren, Virginia; Valley of Virginia. A veteran remembers the tireless labors of women on the home front.”
Memories of Long Ago“1861- 1865. Richmond, Virginia. A recollection of the Confederate Capital, especially women’s work in the hospitals.”