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Life in the South: From the Commencement of the War. Vol 2
“Miss Catherine Cooper Hopley was an English schoolteacher who had been living with relatives in Indiana a few years before going South to teach in 1860. She was a cultured, middle-class woman, a close observer who also read newspapers and kept…
Life in the South: From the Commencement of the War. Vol 1
“Miss Catherine Cooper Hopley was an English schoolteacher who had been living with relatives in Indiana a few years before going South to teach in 1860. She was a cultured, middle-class woman, a close observer who also read newspapers and kept…
Letters From Nashville, 1862: A Portrait of Belle Meade
“1862. The Military Governor of Tennessee (Andrew Johnson) arrested General William Giles Harding as a political prisoner. During his six-month incarceration, his plantation, "Belle Meade," was managed by his wife, Elizabeth. These letters indicate…
My First Impressions of the War
“1861-1865. Hernando, Mississippi; and Montgomery Alabama. A proud lady recalls the war— especially the first months - in her home area and in Montgomery.”
Mobile in the War Between the States
“A summary of the war years in the Alabama port city.”
Memorials of Academic Life, Being a Historical Sketch of the Waddel Family, Identified Through Three Generations with the History of Higher Education in South and Southwest
“Dr. Moses Waddel was President of the University of Georgia. Includes a sketch. Also, an autobiography of John N. Waddel and material on wartime Mississippi.”
Memoirs, with Special Reference to Secession and the Civil War
“Recollections of Confederate Postmaster General.”