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If Fortune Should Fail: Civil War Letters of Dr. Samuel D. Sanders, Part 1

In Sherman's Wake

“February-March 1865. Marlboro County, South Carolina. A young student at the Federal Academy in Bennettsville, South Carolina describes the Union troops’ dash through that town and school.”

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JOHNNY REB'S IMPRESSIONS OF KENTUCKY IN THE FALL OF 1862

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Jacksonport, Arkansas: Its Rise and Decline

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Joseph Carson: Louisiana Confederate Soldier

Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America

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Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist: His Letters, Papers, and Speeches

“Good collection of Davis materials, now being replaced by Papers of Jefferson Davis.”

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Kate: The Journal of a Confederate Nurse

“1862-1865. Cumming served as a hospital matron in Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, providing personal services and comfort for the wounded, and supervised the food and cleanliness of the hospitals. She exhorted women to serve in…