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A Night of Terror
“Unknown time. Alabama. A lady recalls a story by her mother about a trying night when lonely women were brave.”
A Child'd Recollections of War
“June 1864-April 1865. Petersburg, Virginia. A little girl’s memories of the trying last months of the war in the key city south of Richmond.”
A Southern Girl's Diary
“February 10-June 26, 1865. Orangeburg, South Carolina. A girl’s diary records the coming of the Yankee and how the “desecrated. . . Orangeburg,” the “dreadful day” of occupation, the news of a brother’s death, and with defeat—“the gloomy prospect…
A Virginia Boy in the Sixties
“1861-1865. Mechanicsville, Virginia. A wartime youngster describes the toilsome years on the eastern edge of Richmond.”
A Memoir of the Thomson Family
Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc: Fort Motte SC, loc:Calhoun County SC, loc:Columbia SC, loc:Midway Plantation SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1961, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory
A Girl in the Sixties in Richmond
“1861-1865. Richmond. Virginia Lite in the Confederate capital in the memory of a young woman.”
A Young Girl in the Missouri Border War
“Sympathy with CSA, members of a family in the CSA army.”
Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:Civil War, he:Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence KS, loc:Audrain County MO, loc:Callaway County MO, loc:Mexico MO, loc:Missouri, milt:Bushwhackers, milt:Redlegs, pd:1963, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:northern, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:correspondence