“The delicately emotional reminiscences of Mrs. George E. Pickett, with a brief portion on the ante-bellum years, much on the Civil War in VA as it seemed to a Confederate hero’s wife and then the sadness of defeat and reconstruction.”
“A good account of life in the lower Mississippi River Valley in 1863 by a visitor from the North— particularly useful for observations of Creoles, the enslaved, and plantations.”
“January 1865. Northern Virginia. This curious French visitor describes the effect of the war in Virginia, a black military unit, and the camps. He noted the variety of social classes and the lack of deference to rank among the officers, in the…
“1861-1865. Ten years old when the war began, this observer recalls the patriotic zeal that prompted the principal of his school, the Marshallville Academy (Georgia), to raise a company, recruit most of the older boys, and march off to Virginia.…