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Extracts from the Memoirs of William Franklin Avera

Tags: 5th Arkansas Artillery Company, au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Arkansas, loc:Camden AR, loc:Ouachita County AR, milt:fifth arkansas artillery company csa, pd:1963, su:confederate, su:economics, su:military, su:Native American, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:autobiography, ts:memory

“The preface states the work is true and was written in the South "more than two years ago."

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:North Carolina, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1865, su:civilian, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:southern, su:unionist, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Alabama, loc:Dale County Al, loc:Texas, pd:1901, su:African American, su:enslaved, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, loc:Carterville GA, loc:Georgia, pd:1903, su:enslaved, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1909, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:memory

“April 3, 1865. Richmond, Virginia. A former resident of the CSA capital describes the awesome events of the fall of the city.”

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Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Georgia, loc:Savannah GA, pd:1957, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:diary

Tags: au:southern, era:postwar, pd:1897, su:confederate, su:southern, ts:biography, ts:narrative

“Fall of 1863. Rodney, Mississippi. A recollection of a Presbyterian congregation’s work to save its building during an assault by the Yankees.”

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“A reporter for the Charleston Daily Courier describes Florida in March and April 1861.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Jacksonville FL, pd:1960, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:political, su:seccession, ts:correspondence