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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…
Ten Days in Richmond
My Relatives Are Leaving Me Very Fast': War Times Letters of James Wright to His Nephew“June 14-July 3, 1864. A successful cotton producer from Russell County, AL, to his nephew stationed near Savannah. Concern for the young man's…
Life in Civil War East Texas
Recollections of Judge Wm. D. Wood, of San Marcos, TX. II Secession
A Month's Visit to the Confederate Headquarters by an English Officer“The eyes of every Southerner are turned to England.”
The American Civil War, an English View: Part 2“October-November, 1862. A British Army officer who traveled to Virginia and was secreted into the Confederacy across the Potomac. In one section of…
The American Civil War: An English View, Part 1“October-November, 1862. A British Army officer who traveled to Virginia and was secreted into the Confederacy across the Potomac. In one section of…
One Year of the War; Civil War Diary of John Withers, Assistant Adjutant-General, of the Confederate Army
A Missouri Boy’s Experiences“1863. Missouri and Virginia. A young soldier recalls events in his home state in the middle of the war and then describes his trip home after being…