Browse Items (65 total)
- Collection: Items by Publication Date: 1930s
Boyce-Hammond Correspondence“March 17, 1862-October 5, 1864. Wartime correspondence between two South Carolina critics of Jefferson Davis.”
Bread Upon the Waters“1863 or 1864. “Valley of Virginia.” Description of wartime meal at the home of paroled Confederate officer for Union invaders.”
Concessions Made for Union"1865. General. A recollection of post-war actions which led to a comparative halt in sectional disagreements in the Protestant Episcopal Church."
Conditions Just After the War“1865. North Carolina. In a letter to a friend, the last Confederate Governor of North Carolina describes the first weeks after the Confederate…
Courtesy in War“Spring 1863. Holly Springs, Mississippi. A Confederate recalls mutual courtesy between General Grant and the owners of the house he was using as his…
Daring Molly Tynes“July 1863. Near Tazewell, Virginia. A recollection of a daring riot by an “eighteen-year-old courier. . . beautiful of form and face” who rode to…
Diary of William Plumer Jacobs
Early Days of the War in Missouri“June-December 1861. Missouri. A recollection of the deep divisions of loyalty in a key border state.”
Eneas Africanus“Mentioned travels in North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana, in the years 1864 to 1872.”
Going Home From the Army“April-May 1865. Greensboro, North Carolina to Benton County, Arkansas. An Arkansas paroled soldier recalls the many intricacies of his journey home…