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The Last Days of the Confederate Treasury and What Became of its Specie
“April 2 - May 4, 1865. Richmond and Danville, Virginia, and Washington, Georgia. The last CSA Treasurer describes, in recollections written in 1882, the effort to take Confederate southward in April 1865.”
The Evacuation of Richmond, April 3, 1865 and the Disastrous Conflagration Incident Theory
“April 3, 1865. Richmond, Virginia. More testimony relating to the evacuation of Richmond by an eyewitness.”
The Destruction of Columbia, South Carolina
“A German's account of the destruction of the South Carolina capitol.”
The Confederate Treasury
“April-May 1865. Richmond to Georgia. A brief account of the fate of Confederate gold and paper reserved on the flight from Virginia.”
The Correspondence of Robert Toombs, Alexander H. Stephens, and Howell Cobb
“A valuable resource for the years immediately preceding, during, and following the Civil War.”
The Colonel's Lady Some Letters of Ellen Wilkins Tompkins, July-December 1861
“July-December 1861. When her farm, "Gauley Mount" (Fayette County, Virginia), was occupied by Union forces, Mrs. Thompkins remained rather than moving east with her husband and the Confederate army. She included incidents of the occupation, the…