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Back to Dixie, A Hard trip“November 1864 - Spring 1865. Indiana to Kentucky. A reminiscence of escaped confederate prisoners who came South late in the war.”
Diary of William Plumer Jacobs
Escape of Breckinridge and Benjamin“April-May 1865. Richmond To Charleston. A friend of John C. Breckinridge summarizes an 1874 conversation about the secret trips out of the defeated…
Up the St. John's River“On the Union occupation of Jacksonville, March 1863.”
Some War Scenes Revisited“The author saw Jacksonville in flames in March 1864; he returned in 1878 to visit members of his former black regiment.”
Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation"This book is of outstanding value as a close-up picture of the management of confiscated and abandoned plantations along the Mississippi River which…
Selections From the Autobiography of Governor T.T. Crittenden
Five years in Texas: or, What you did not Hear During the War from January 1861 to January 1866. A narrative of his Travels, Experiences, and Observations, in Texas and Mexico“This account of Texas during the Civil War, by a Northern merchant, turned preacher to evade the Confederate draft law, is written in a friendly…
Life in Richmond, 1863-1865“1863-1865. Richmond, Virginia. A former Ordinance Bureau officer remembers the realities of the war years in the Confederate capital.”
A Remarkable Relic of the Confederacy“Semmes comments on a lengthy letter from Alexander H. Stephens, Crawfordsville, Georgia, November 5, 1864. July 1, 1858-September 18, 1862. James…