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Six Months in the Federal States

“Edward Dicey was an English author and journalist, on his trip to America he was the special correspondent of MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE and the SPECTATOR. Portions of his American account appeared in the pages of these periodicals before being…

Tags: au:english, au:male, era:1860s, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, su:enslaved, su:observer, su:political, su:slavery, su:travel, ts:memory, ts:narrative

To Tuscaloosa and Beyond: A Union Cavalry Raider in Alabama, March-April 1865

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Georgia, pd:1982, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory

A Visit to South Carolina in 1860

“April 1860. South Carolina. This observer recalled the key personalities and places in Charleston and Columbia in the year before the war began.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:antebellum, loc:South Carolina, pd:1884, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:travel, ts:memory

LAND AND LABOR IN KENTUCKY, 1865; LETTERS TO GEORGE LEWIS GREATHOUSE

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Shelbyville Ky, loc:Versailles Ky, pd:1950, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:plantation, su:political, su:prison, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Memoirs of a Southerner, 1840-1923

"Pictures of plantation life in McIntosh County seaboard served as a CSA soldier and wartime Savannah.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Georgia, pd:1923, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:military, su:Reconstruction, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

The Negroes at Port Royal: Report of E. L. Pierce, Government Agent, to the Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury.

Tags: au:male, au:union, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Port Royal SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1862, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:political, su:slavery, su:union, ts:offical documents

Social Life in Richmond During the War

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1860s, era:1891, era:Civil War, he:The Seven Days Battles, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

Military Medicine in Occupied New Orleans, 1863

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, su:camp life, su:medical, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Autobiography of Arab.

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Charleston SC, loc:Colimbia SC, loc:South Carolina, milt:2nd South Carolina Cavalry, milt:Beaufort District Troop, milt:Jeb Stuart's Staff, pd:1901, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

A Doctor's Experiences in Three Continents

“Author served as Surgeon General of North Carolina; useful for information on Governor Vance's administration.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:female, au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, pd:1885, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:medical, su:travel, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

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