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Old Plantation days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War
“Actually misleading, for it contains much on the war, Sherman's March through Georgia and South Carolina, also includes beginning of conflict at Charleston.”
My Greatest Childhood Sorrow
“Unknown time or place. A said recollection of the effects of the war on a young boy’s neighbor.”
A Virginian's Diary in Civil War Days
“August 17 to December 31, 1862. Kinloch Plantation Fauquier County, Virginia. This article is almost entirely composed of entries from the diary of a plantation owner, Edward Carter Turner, Unionist who described the ravages of the war in Northern…
Letters To and From Jacob Thompson
“Postwar letters recall Thompson's wartime activities especially as a CSA agent in Europe.”
Letters From Nashville, 1862: "Dear Master"
“1862. The Military Governor of Tennessee (Andrew Johnson) arrested General William Giles Harding as a political prisoner. During his six-month incarceration, his plantation, "Belle Meade," was managed by his wife, Elizabeth. These letters indicate…
"My Dear Husband": A Texas Slave's Love Letter, 1862
December 28, 1862. Expressions of worry about and love for her husband Norfleet, a bondsman to enslaver Theophilus Perry (28th Texas Cavalry), who had gone into military service as Perry’s "personal servant.”