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Evablina -- Last of the Old Virinia Slaves“General. A remembrance of a loyal family servant.”
The Culture of the Old South“1861-1865. General. “One of the belles of the sixties” offers an essay on the attitudes and culture of Dixie.”
Life in the South: From the Commencement of the War. Vol 2“Miss Catherine Cooper Hopley was an English schoolteacher who had been living with relatives in Indiana a few years before going South to teach in…
Life in the South: From the Commencement of the War. Vol 1“Miss Catherine Cooper Hopley was an English schoolteacher who had been living with relatives in Indiana a few years before going South to teach in…
Illium in Flames“February-March 1865. Columbia, South Carolina. A collection of descriptions of the destruction of the South Carolina capital.”
Civil War Letters of George W. Allen“July 24 - November 30, 1862. Arkansas. A Texas farm boy describes life near his Confederate Army post in central Arkansas in three letters.”
Letters of a War Correspondent
The Siege of Savannah in December 1864, and the Confederate Operations in Georgia and the Third Military District of South Carolina During General Sherman's March From Atlanta to the sea.“A fine account by an eyewitness and proud historian of the war years.”
Sketches of the war: a series of letters to the North Moore Street School of New York.“Although these letters were addressed to school children, they give a close-up view of the country and inhabitants of northwestern Tennessee and…
War Recollections, Story of the Evacuation of Petersburg, by an Eye-Witness; A Sad and Solemn Sabbath“April 1, 1865. Petersburg, Virginia. A personal account of the education of key city south of Richmond.”