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"Our Women in the War:" The Lives They Lived, the Deaths They Died. From the weekly News ad Courier, Charleston, S.C.
“Recollections of the wartime years in the great South Carolina port city.”
“Beauty and Booty:” The Watchword of New Orleans
“New Orleans during the war, occupation, and atrocities.”
A Balcony in Charleston
“Letters of life and times of Caroline Howard Gilman, experiences of a "Confederate Mother", during Civil War, to her sister in the North and to her daughter, the wife of James Russell Lowell.”
A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War
“1861-1865. Near Eufaula, Alabama. Recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during a blockade imposed on the South, life on a plantation.”
A Child'd Recollections of War
“June 1864-April 1865. Petersburg, Virginia. A little girl’s memories of the trying last months of the war in the key city south of Richmond.”
A Confederate Girl Visits Pennsylvania, July-September 1863, Part 1
“July 29-September 3, 1863. Letters. Relates her travel from Maryland to Pennsylvania, the city of Altoona, family affairs, and impressions of the course of the war.”
A Confederate Girl Visits Pennsylvania, July-September 1863, Part 2
“July 29-September 3, 1863. Letters. Relates her travel from Maryland to Pennsylvania, the city of Altoona, family affairs, and impressions of the course of the war.”
A Confederate Girl's Diary
"March 9, 1862 - May 2, 1865. One of the best Confederate diaries, written by a Baton Rouge girl, who was a fervent Confederate. In 1863, she moved to the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain and later into New Orleans. Dawson was initially ambivalent…