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- Collection: Items by Publication Date: 1960s
Southern History of the War, Second Edition
Civil War Letter from Paris, Texas, 1861
Military Medicine in Occupied New Orleans, 1863
A Report on Civil War America: Sir James Fergusson's Five-Week Visit“September 17-October 23, 1861. Letter. Conservative member of the British Parliament. Traveled in both the North and South and visited the major…
The Private War of Lizzie Hardin: A Kentucky Confederate Girl's Diary of the Civil War in Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.“1860-August 2, 1865. Visiting in Abingdon, VA, when the war began, Hardin helped prepare soldiers for battle. Returning home to Harrodsburg, KY, she…
The Colonel's Lady Some Letters of Ellen Wilkins Tompkins, July-December 1861“July-December 1861. When her farm, "Gauley Mount" (Fayette County, Virginia), was occupied by Union forces, Mrs. Thompkins remained rather than…
Laurence M. Keitt's Letters from the Provisional Congress of the Confederacy, 1861“February 13 - August 20, 1861. Montgomery, Alabama, and Richmond, Virginia. A young "Calhoonist" describes the creation of the CSA Congress.”
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…
Beleaguered Charleston: Letters from the City, 1860-1864, Part 1
The Southern Diary of William John Grayson, Part 2"May 10-November 18, 1862. This elderly Charleston political and literary figure was an ardent defender of slavery, but suspicious of the motives of…