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A SKETCH OF THE EARLY LIFE AND SERVICE IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY OF DR. JOHN A. LEWIS OF GEORGETOWN, KY.
A Christmas Story
A Rebel Came Home: The Diary of Floride Clemson Tells of Her Wartime Adventures in Yankeeland, 1863-64, Her Trip Home to South Carolina“January 1, 1863-October 24, 1866. From her home in Bladensburg, MD, the young daughter of a pro Confederate family reported news of the Gettysburg…
An Adventurous Trip“1863? Memphis, Tennessee. A young woman’s trip to the river city with a friend.”
Auguste Laugel Visits the Army of the Potomac“January 1865. Northern Virginia. This curious French visitor describes the effect of the war in Virginia, a black military unit, and the camps. He…
A Boy of the Old Dominion During the War Between the States“1861-1865. Alexandria, Virginia. The memories of a youngster living in the busy city on the south bank of the Potomac—across from Washington, D.C.”
A Poor Widow Asks for Food: 1865“May 8, 1865. A Baldwin County, Georgia woman wrote this letter to Union Major General James H. Wilson, revealing the lingering desolation caused by…
Autobiographical Notes ane Memoranda“200 numbered copies. On the cover: "On the Blockade, 1861 to 1863. Cotton planting in the Confederacy." A Northerner on a Mississippi plantation,…
A Checkered Life“The author's recollections of his early days in Montgomery County and elsewhere in Kentucky with notices of his Civil War experiences and the…
Alabama Secedes From the Union“November 1860-January 1861. Montgomery. Alabama. A judge reviews the election events in 1860 and the secession debates in Alabama.”