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Selections From the Autobiography of Governor T.T. Crittenden
Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation"This book is of outstanding value as a close-up picture of the management of confiscated and abandoned plantations along the Mississippi River which…
Some War Scenes Revisited“The author saw Jacksonville in flames in March 1864; he returned in 1878 to visit members of his former black regiment.”
Up the St. John's River“On the Union occupation of Jacksonville, March 1863.”
Escape of Breckinridge and Benjamin“April-May 1865. Richmond To Charleston. A friend of John C. Breckinridge summarizes an 1874 conversation about the secret trips out of the defeated…
Diary of William Plumer Jacobs
Back to Dixie, A Hard trip“November 1864 - Spring 1865. Indiana to Kentucky. A reminiscence of escaped confederate prisoners who came South late in the war.”
Searching for the American Dream in Arkansas: Letters of a Pioneer Family
Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War, 1861-'65: Memorial Reminiscences.“Bibliography of State Participation in C.W. gives the book as 90 p. Includes a wide variety of materials on Arkansas women during the war.”
A Heroine of the Sixties“1863-1865. Giles County. Virginia. An unidentified woman described a valiant young neighbor who always helped Confederates and “met every vicissitude…