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Florida on the Eve of the Civil War as Seen by a Southern Reporter
“A reporter for the Charleston Daily Courier describes Florida in March and April 1861.”
Life in the Confederate Army, Being the Observations and Experiences on an Alien in the
South During the American Civil War
“First, American edition. Watson, a Scotsman, emigrated to America a few years before the war and established a small business in Baton Rouge. Although a British subject, he enlisted in the Confederate Army on the outbreak of war.”
Autobiography of William Wood.
“Includes his travels in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas.”
An Errand to the South in the Summer of 1862
“The Rev. W. Wyndham Malet was Vicar of Ardeley, near Buntingford, Hertfordshire, England. He came to America to visit his sister at Conway, SC. He traveled by steamer from Baltimore to Fortress Monroe, on a British warship to Charleston, by train to…
Papers of Willie Person Mangum
“Whig senator.”
Conditions Just After the War
“1865. North Carolina. In a letter to a friend, the last Confederate Governor of North Carolina describes the first weeks after the Confederate surrender”