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Forsaking All Others: A Story of Sherman's March Through Georgia
“Fiction-based facts? Southern suffering, the brutality of Sherman.”
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.”
Illium in Flames
“February-March 1865. Columbia, South Carolina. A collection of descriptions of the destruction of the South Carolina capital.”
One Woman in the Great War
“1864-1865. Petersburg, Virginia. A recollection of the last months of the war, just south of Richmond.”
Reminiscences of the Civil War By J. W. Frederick
“1861-1865. Ten years old when the war began, this observer recalls the patriotic zeal that prompted the principal of his school, the Marshallville Academy (Georgia), to raise a company, recruit most of the older boys, and march off to Virginia.…
Remainiscing in Lively Vein
“December 1864. Near Eatonton, Georgia. An Arkansas rifleman remembers some interesting events from his experience in Georgia as a straggler trying to escape Sherman’s army.”