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A Rebel Came Home: The Diary of Floride Clemson Tells of Her Wartime Adventures in Yankeeland, 1863-64, Her Trip Home to South Carolina
“January 1, 1863-October 24, 1866. From her home in Bladensburg, MD, the young daughter of a pro Confederate family reported news of the Gettysburg campaign and observed Early's Washington raid. In December 1864, she received a pass to visit a…
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 personalities of the war. This letter to Lord Palmerston revealed that Fergusson favored the South and…
A Scouting Expedition During the Civil War
“Undated recollections, apparently fragmentary, or author's movement as a CSA spy, across Potomac in Virginia, as far as Marlborough.”
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.”
A Visit to the Cities and Camps of the Confederate States
“Fitzgerald Ross, "Captain of Hussars in the Imperial Austrian Army." In May 1863, he made his way across the military lines in northern Virginia and went directly to Richmond. Finding easy access to military and civil leaders of the Confederacy, he…
