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LOUISIANA BURGE: THE DAIRY OF A CONFEDERATE COLLEGE GIRL

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Burge Plantation GA, loc:Georgia, loc:Newton County Ga, pd:1952, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

Letters From Nashville, 1862: A Portrait of Belle Meade

“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…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Belle Meade Plantation Tn, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1974, su:confederate, su:economics, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:political, su:prison, su:slavery, ts:correspondence, ts:narrative

Recollections of Harriet DuBose Kershaw Lang, Part 1

Tags: era:1861-1865, era:postwar, he:Appomattox, loc:South Carolina, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding

Reconstruction in Yazoo County

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:Mississippi, loc:Yazzo County MS, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:economics, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory

Yazoo County in the Civil War

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Mississippi, loc:Yazoo County MS, su:confederate, su:economics, su:homefront, su:military, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Southern Home in War Times

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1914, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1923, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography

Memories of a Long life in Virginia

“Much on CSA, knew Lee and Jackson.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Lexington VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1920, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography

Recollections of Samuel Gourdin Gaillard

Tags: au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Orangeburg County SC, loc:Rocks Plantation, loc:South Carolina, loc:St. Johns SC, pd:1956, su:enslaved, su:family narrative, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory

Remainiscing in Lively Vein

“December 1864. Near Eatonton, Georgia. An Arkansas rifleman remembers some interesting events from his experience in Georgia as a straggler trying to escape Sherman’s army.”

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