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Auguste Laugel Visits the Army of the Potomac

“January 1865. Northern Virginia. This curious French visitor describes the effect of the war in Virginia, a black military unit, and the camps. He noted the variety of social classes and the lack of deference to rank among the officers, in the…

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Journal of the Civil War in Missouri, 1861, Henry Martyn Cheavens, 1862-1863

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A Missouri Confederate in the Civil War, the Journal of Henry Martyn Cheavens

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A Memoir of the Thomson Family

Letters from the Battle of Lexington: 1861

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Governor John Gill Shorter Executive Papers

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INSIDE LIBBY AND OUT

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Plantation Lessee Problems In 1864

“May 2, 1864. Lower Mississippi Valley. A professor at the University of Michigan was one of a group of investors attracted by the proposition of raising cotton on the occupied plantations along the Mississippi River, south of Vicksburg. This letter…

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