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Recollections Grave and Gay
“Burton Harrison was private secretary to Jeff Davis. This work describes social life in CSA, especially in Richmond; also includes opinions on Confederate leaders.”
Yazoo: or, On the Picket Line of Freedom in the South. A Personal Narrative
“Just after the end of the war in Mississippi, this work gives a clear view of the defeated South and the conditions on the home front in 1865.”
A Confederate Nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot
“Ada W. Bacot's diary of her experiences as a nurse in the South Carolina hospital for Confederate soldiers in Charlottesville, Virginia provides a rare record of Confederate hospital life as perceived by a lady volunteer. Bacot, a young widow, did…
My Return from Dixie
“April-May-1865. Macon, Mississippi; Memphis to Louisville, to Gallatin, Tennessee. The wife of a former Confederate officer remembers her return home to Middle Tennessee soon after the end of the war.”
Deterioration of a Georgia Rice Plantation During Four Years of Civil War
“May 1861-June 30, 1865. Near Savannah, Georgia. Diary of a member of a famed Charleston Huguenot family records effects of war on a rice plantation a few miles upriver from Savannah.”
Memories of 1865-1871
Civil War and Reconstruction.