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Plantation Lessee Problems In 1864
“May 2, 1864. Lower Mississippi Valley. A professor at the University of Michigan was one of a group of investors attracted by the proposition of raising cotton on the occupied plantations along the Mississippi River, south of Vicksburg. This letter…
Reminiscences of the Confederacy, J.U. Payne, of New Orleans, LA -- His Devotion to, and Sacrifices for the Cause
“Sketchy recollections of a business associate and acquaintance of Davis.”
Letters To and From Jacob Thompson
“Postwar letters recall Thompson's wartime activities especially as a CSA agent in Europe.”
Memories of Florida; Embracing a General History of the Province, Territory, and State; and Special Chapters Devoted to Finances and Banking, the Bench and Bar, Medical Profession, Railways and Navigation, and Industrial Interests
“Vol. 1, contains events in wartime Florida and rosters of various units.”
Immortelles: A Tribute to the "Old South"
“Much CSA-Missouri and Arkansas, port of J. Davis”.
The Freedmen of Port Royal
“March 25 to May 10, 1862. Port Royal and Beaufort area. South Carolina. A Northern visitor describes the efforts to educate former slaves from the Sea Islands at Port Royal.”