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Beleaguered Charleston: Letters from the City, 1860-1864, Part 2

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, he:Blackade of Charlestown, he:Siege of Charlestown, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1960, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Beleaguered Charleston: Letters from the City, 1860-1864, Part 3

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, he:Blackade of Charlestown, he:Siege of Charlestown, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1960, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

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…

Tags: era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, pd:1961, su:civilian, su:economics, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Sue Sparks Keitt to a Northern Friend, March 4, 1861

“March 4, 1861. Marlborough District, South Carolina. Mrs. Keitt, of South Carolina, offered Mrs. Brown with two reasons why Southern states were leaving the Union: the election of Abraham Lincoln and the tyrannical intentions of the "Black…

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The Lafourche District in 1862: Invasion

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, he: Battle of LaFourche Crossing, loc:Assumption Parish La, loc:Lafourche District La, loc:Lafourche Parish La, loc:Louisiana, loc:Terrebonne Parish La, pd:1961, su:battlefield, su:military, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:narrative

The Journal of Eldress Nancy, Kept at the South Union, Kentucky, Shaker Colony, August 15, 1861-September 4, 1864

“Shaker colony of South Union, KY; civilian account of war kept by Eldress Nancy Moore.”

“August 15, 1861-September 4, 1864. Recorded that men loyal to the Union were fleeing Kentucky to avoid conscription into Confederate service. When…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Kentucky, loc:South Union Ky, loc:South Union Shaker Village Ky, pd:1963, su:abolitionist, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

Unionists in Rockbridge County: The Correspondence of James Dorman Davidson concerning the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1860, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Lexington VA, loc:Rockbridge County VA, loc:Shenandoah Valley, loc:Virginia, pd:1965, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:seccession, su:union, ts:correspondence

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