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"Its Good to be Religious:" A Loyal Slave of God, Masters and the Civil War
"My Dear Husband": A Texas Slave's Love Letter, 1862December 28, 1862. Expressions of worry about and love for her husband Norfleet, a bondsman to enslaver Theophilus Perry (28th Texas Cavalry), who…
"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…
A Belgian Consul on Conditions in the South in 1860 and 1862“January 20, 1861, and November 15, 1862. Text of two reports by the consul at Atlanta, to Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, describing conditions…
A Billy Yank's Impressions of the South
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,…
A Bluecoat's Account of the Camden Expedition
A Book of Memories, 1842-1920“CSA and Alabama material.”