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The Wedding at the Parker House

”Notes of black regiments at Punta Rassa, ca. 1865: The 2d and 99th U.S. Colored Infantry and 2d Florida (U.S.) Cavalry. Describes Fort Myers, the nearby Indians, a ball in celebration of the fall of Richmond, and a military wedding for an Indian…

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To Tuscaloosa and Beyond: A Union Cavalry Raider in Alabama, March-April 1865

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Tupelo

"A sequel to THE IRON FURNACE, narrating the experiences of a Union Presbyterian clergyman in northeast Mississippi during the secession period useful as an account of the intense feelings of the time; includes much information about the condition of…

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Under the Guns: A Woman’s Reminiscences of the Civil War, With an Introduction by Mrs. General U.S. Grant

“By an Iowa lady why served in Union hospitals useful for Southern life described-Chattanooga, Vicksburg, Nashville, and most other areas of the CSA "west".

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Unionists in Rockbridge County: The Correspondence of James Dorman Davidson concerning the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861

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Up the St. John's River

“On the Union occupation of Jacksonville, March 1863.”

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We Left a Black Track in South Carolina: Letters of Corporal Eli S. Ricker, 1865

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William Parker Cutler's Congressional Diary Of 1862-63

WILLIAM PARKER CUTLER'S CONGRESSIONAL DIARY OF 1862-63 Allan G. Bogue William Parker Cutler's career in the first United States Congress of the Civil War appears at first glance to have been less than noteworthy. Elected as a Republican to the House…

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