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- Collection: Items by Publication Date: 1960s
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The Civil War Diary of Rufus J. Woolwine
“June 1, 1861-June 7, 1865. Primarily in June. The diary of a young soldier from Patrick County, Virginia, this material includes valuable descriptions of life in the author's home state and the South in defeat.”
“Beauty and Booty:” The Watchword of New Orleans
“New Orleans during the war, occupation, and atrocities.”
Plantation Lessee Problems In 1864
“May 2, 1864. Lower Mississippi Valley. A professor at the University of Michigan was one of a group of investors attracted by the proposition of raising cotton on the occupied plantations along the Mississippi River, south of Vicksburg. This letter…
A Southerner Views the South, 1865: Letters of Harvey M. Watterson
“June 7-July 8, 1865. North Carolina and Richmond, Virginia. This observer was sent to the defeated south to report to Andrew Johnson, a fellow Tennessean, and describe opinions in the region.”
From a New England Woman's Diary in Dixie in 1865
"May-July 1865. Privately printed. Author's diary describing her teaching experiences on Edisto Island, near Charleston, SC."
