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Lest We Forget
“Unknown date. “Rural” South Carolina. A Cheering recollection about the generosity of Southern women to their defenders.”
Life in Confederate Arkansas: The Diary of Virginia Davis Gray, 1863-1866, Part II
"Virginia wife of the former principal of Princeton Female Academy, busied herself sewing clothes for the soldiers, working as a nurse, attending religious functions, and reading. She wrote about the war in Arkansas and her fear of Federal…
Life in Confederate Arkansas: The Diary of Virginia Davis Gray, 1863-1865, Part I
"Virginia wife of the former principal of Princeton Female Academy, busied herself sewing clothes for the soldiers, working as a nurse, attending religious functions, and reading. She wrote about the war in Arkansas and her fear of Federal…
Memoirs, Letters, and Diary Entries of German Settlers in Northwest Arkansas, 1853-1863
“Often poignant contemporary views of the war's effects among recent German immigrants in the hill country north of Fort Smith.”
My First Impressions of the War
“1861-1865. Hernando, Mississippi; and Montgomery Alabama. A proud lady recalls the war— especially the first months - in her home area and in Montgomery.”
My Old Black Mammy
“1861-1865. General. A Confederate recalled “the character and virtues of the Negroes before and during the war.”
Missouri Girl's Prison Experiences
“August 1864. Central Missouri. A young woman from Boonville, Missouri describes her travels after being arrested by Union officers.”
Mrs. Tinsley's War Recollections, 1862-1865
“1862-1863. Near Richmond, Virginia. These memoirs, written in 1911 by a plantation wife describe life in the Peninsula-while Yankee troops were invading-and mention Union balloon observers.”