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Mothers and Maidens of the Sixties
“1861-1865. Near Warren, Virginia; Valley of Virginia. A veteran remembers the tireless labors of women on the home front.”
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.”
My Cave Life in Vicksburg.: With Letters of Trial and Travel
"A valuable story of a gentlewoman's experiences under siege at Vicksburg."—Civil War Books. Most revealing for the trials endured by the inhabitants of the besieged city, told by the wife of CSA colonel, in her own words which need no…
My Confederate Girlhood: The Memoirs of Kate Virginia Cox Logan
“Recalled her war years at Clover Hill, plantation source of coal for Richmond.”
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 Moving Tent
“Several chapters on CSA, minutes of Gen. Assoc., chaplains, and missionaries of Army of Tennessee.”
My Return from Dixie
“April-May-1865. Macon, Mississippi; Memphis to Louisville, to Gallatin, Tennessee. The wife of a former Confederate officer remembers her return home to Middle Tennessee soon after the end of the war.”