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Rogues and Black Hearted Scamps: Civil War Letters of Winston and Octavia Stephens, 1862-1863

The Earle-Buchanan Letters of 1861-1876

Tags: au:confederate, au:female, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Cane Hill Ar, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence, ts:narrative

A Journey Among the Contrabands: The Diary of Walter Totten Carpenter

“January 1-March 24, 1864. Sent by the Indiana Quakers to Tennessee and Alabama to monitor the aid being given to the slaves who had escaped to, or been brought within, Union lines, Carpenter recorded miles traveled, the weather, and conditions of…

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Reminiscences of the Civil War By J. W. Frederick

“1861-1865. Ten years old when the war began, this observer recalls the patriotic zeal that prompted the principal of his school, the Marshallville Academy (Georgia), to raise a company, recruit most of the older boys, and march off to Virginia.…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Georgia, loc:Macon County Ga, loc:Marshallville Ga, pd:1926, pd:1975, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

A SKETCH OF THE EARLY LIFE AND SERVICE IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY OF DR. JOHN A. LEWIS OF GEORGETOWN, KY.

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, milt:2nd Kentucky Cavalry CSA, pd:1977, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

An Ohio Doctor Views Campaigning on the White River, 1864

Tags: 120th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Red River Campaign, loc:Libreville Ar, milt:120th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, pd:1973, su:medical, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, ts:memory

The Civil War Diary of Louisa Brown Pearl

"September 1, 1861-March 22, 1862. Nashville. The Pearl family, who had migrated to Nashville from the North in the mid-1850s, was split by sectional antagonisms. In 1861 Mr. Pearl took the daughters to Detroit. John, the son, joined the 1st…

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, milt:C Company First Tennessee Infantry, milt:Field's Infantry, pd:1979, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:seccession, su:union, ts:diary

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