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Life is Uncertain… Willard Hall Mendenhall's 1862 Civil War Diary, Part 1“January 1-December 31, 1862. A carriage maker and farmer who lived near Lexington, Mo. He recorded the hardships and sufferings of civilians caused…
Cause of Church Seperation
Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove; or, Scenes and Incidents of the War in Arkansas“An account of life in and around Washington County, Arkansas, during the first years of the war, the author wrote as a Unionist surrounded by…
The Letters of William Beverley Randolph Hackley: Treasury Agent in West Tennessee, 1863-1866“November 22, 1863 - April 2, 1866. Memphis and La Grange, Tennessee. Nine letters from a native Virginian, who had moved to Joliet, Illinois, before…
A Yankee Soldier Looks at the Negro
Recollections of Judge Wm. D. Wood, of San Marcos, TX. II Secession
To Coosawhatchie in December 1861
Recollections of a Varied Career“Massachusetts congressman's account of Roanoke Island and New Bern, pp. 51-76.”
Louisville, Kentucky, During the First Year of the Civil War
Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession: With a Narrative of Personal Adventures Among the Rebels“During the latter part of 1861, this fiery Knoxville newspaper editor became so obnoxious to the confederates that he sought safety in the Great…