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Old Plantation days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War
“Actually misleading, for it contains much on the war, Sherman's March through Georgia and South Carolina, also includes beginning of conflict at Charleston.”
Memoirs of Narcissa Owen, 1831-1907
“While the recollection generally is about Cherokees, the author lived in Lynchburg during the War, made CSA uniforms, described Hunter's Raid, etc.”
The Evolution of a State, or Recollections of Old Texas Days
“J. Frank Dobie described this account as the "best of all books dealing with life in early Texas Bully reading." This reminiscence by a key Texas pioneer summarizes the decades from the early settlements by U.S. immigrants in Texas until he left the…
Echoes from the Battlefield; Or, Southern Life During the War
“Impersonal account of life for a Georgia family during the war, by an M.D. living near Atlanta.”
Cullings from the Confederacy: A Collection of Southern Poems, Original and Others, Popular During the War Between the States, and Incidents and Facts Worth Recalling. 1862-1866: Including the Doggerel of the Camp, as well as a Tender Tribute to the Dead
“1862-1866. Discusses women's efforts and attitudes; prices and shortages-a wide variety of brief items.”
My First Impressions of the War
“1861-1865. Hernando, Mississippi; and Montgomery Alabama. A proud lady recalls the war— especially the first months - in her home area and in Montgomery.”
A Daughter of the Confederacy: A Story of the Old South and the New
“Southern life in the South during the War.”
Whitaker’s Reminiscences, Incidents and Anecdotes; Recollections of Other Days and years, or, What I Saw and heard, and Thought of People Whom I Knew, and What They Did and Said
“Wake County journalist candidly recalls events in North Carolina.”