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A Roundabout Way Home
“1865. Kentucky. The first weeks at home for a former Confederate chaplain.”
A Great Old-Time Schoolmaster
“1861-1865. Nashville, Tennessee. A fond remembrance of the Rev. C.D. Elliott, wartime "principal of the old Nashville Female Academy.”
A Red-Headed Rebel
“Unknown time or place. A cute wartime story.”
A French View of the Fall of Richmond: Alfred Paul's Report to Drouyn De Lhuys, April 11, 1865
“April 2-3, 1865. The French Consul in Richmond recorded the chaotic conditions of the Confederate evacuation of Richmond and the calm that existed when Federal troops took charge. He noted CSA Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin's behavior as…
A Record of Events in Norfolk County, Virginia, from April 19th, 1861, to May 10th, 1862, With a History of the Soldiers and Sailors of Norfolk County, Norfolk City, and Portsmouth, Who Served in the Confederate States Army or Navy
“Contains the muster rolls of the Third Virginia Regiment, Virginia Riflemen, National Grays, Ninth Virginia Regiment, Old Dominion Guard, Virginia Rangers, Sixty-first Virginia Regiment, Sixth Virginia Regiment, as well as numerous others.”
A Woman Rice Planter
“NEW YORK SUN columns written by the bankrupt daughter of a former South Carolina governor reveal the struggles Southerners faced after the Civil War.”
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.”