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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…
The City of Vicksburg (A Girl’s Journey to Vicksburg, Second Section)
“1863. Vicksburg, Mississippi. The account of a young woman’s trip to the key river port, under Union escort.”
Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Vicksburg, he:Siege of Vicksburg, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, loc:Wexford Plantation MS, pd:1928, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:economics, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront
Memorials of a Southern Planter
“Wartime portion of this fine recollection of Thomas Dabney and his family; Union occupation in Mississippi, refugee life in Macon, Georgia, and the sad but genteel poverty of a proud man after the war.”
War Recollections 1 of 3
“1862- 1865. Near Winchester, Virginia. Recollections of a lady, near ninety years old, of events near her home in the Shenandoah Valley.”
Two little Confederates
“Based on boyhood experiences of Page and his brother Roswell.”