Browse Items (65 total)
- Collection: Items by Publication Date: 1930s
My Confederate Girlhood: The Memoirs of Kate Virginia Cox Logan“Recalled her war years at Clover Hill, plantation source of coal for Richmond.”
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…
Some Observations of the Years 1860 and 1861 as Revealed by a Packet of Old Letters“Wartime letters among sisters from Wilmington, N.C., Eufaula, Alabama, and Georgia.”
A Southern Girl's Diary“February 10-June 26, 1865. Orangeburg, South Carolina. A girl’s diary records the coming of the Yankee and how the “desecrated. . . Orangeburg,” the…
The University of North Carolina"1861-1865. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. A personal reflection of events in Chapel Hill and at UNC during the war."
A Memorable Night“Spring 1863. Near Florence, Alabama. A lady recalls how Yankee raiders “plundered through our double parlors” in Union General Wilson’s raid.”
War Recollections 3 of 3“1862- 1865. Near Winchester, Virginia. Recollections of a lady, near ninety years old, of events near her home in the Shenandoah Valley.”
War Recollections 2 of 3“1862- 1865. Near Winchester, Virginia. Recollections of a lady, near ninety years old, of events near her home in the Shenandoah Valley.”
The Evacuation of Richmond“April 1865. Richmond, Virginia. An account of the evacuation of Richmond and the entrance of Federal troops, into the Confederate capital. The…
A Belgian Consul on Conditions in the South in 1860 and 1862“January 20, 1861, and November 15, 1862. Text of two reports by the consul at Atlanta, to Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, describing conditions…