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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.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, pd:1888, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:economics, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:seccession, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:travel, ts:narrative

A Boy's Experience in the Civil War, 1860-1865.

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1904, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Christmas Story

Tags: au:male, era:1861, era:1862, loc:Dutch Mills Ar, loc:Hermannsburg Ar, loc:Washington County Ar, pd:1950, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:family narrative, su:German, su:homefront, su:non-slaveholding white, su:slavery, ts:memory

A Georgia Woman's Civil War Diary: The Journal of Minerva Leah Rowles McClatchey, 1864-1865

“January 1864-September 1865. When Sherman's troops entered Georgia, Mr. McClatchey left the family farm near Marietta, GA. Mrs. McClatchey, however, chose to stay and face the invaders. She observed the plight of refugees returning to their…

Tags: era:1864, era:1865, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Georgia, su:agriculture, su:family narrative, su:homefront, su:seccession, ts:diary

A March Past: Reminiscences of Elizabeth Randolph Preston Allen

"References to Stonewall Jackson and other Civil War materials."

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:southern, ts:autobiography, ts:memory

Bill Arp: From the Uncivil War to Date, 1861-1903

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, pd:1903, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:narrative

Chronicles of Chicora Wood

“About one-third of this memoir by a member of a truly respected South Carolina family describes her difficulties and hardships during the war years.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Georgetown County Ga, loc:Georgia, pd:1922, su:childhood, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1912, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:local history, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

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