Browse Items (155 total)
- Collection: Items by Publication Date: 1920s
My Childhood Recollections of the War“1861-1865. Virginia. The war years as recalled by a woman who was five years of age when the conflict began.”
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.”
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 Story“Recollections of Civil War El Paso.”
Nancy Harts' of the Confederacy”1863. LaGrange, Georgia. Praise for young women of the South and their service—“they stood ever in readiness.”
North Carolina women of the Confederacy"Includes reminiscences and some wartime community associations' minutes."
Old Louisiana“A chronicle of two centuries of Louisiana plantation life told through remembrances, stories, diary excerpts, drawings, and lore.”
Our Family Physician“1861-1865. Eastern Virginia. A memory of the valiant work of a Virginia healer, Dr. Ezekiel Starke Tally of Hanover County.”