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A Yankee Soldier Looks at the Negro

A Union Band Director Views Camp Rolla, 1861

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, loc:Rolla MO, milt:13th Illinois Infantry, pd:1961, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:war experience, ts:diary

A Journey Among the Contrabands: The Diary of Walter Totten Carpenter

“January 1-March 24, 1864. Sent by the Indiana Quakers to Tennessee and Alabama to monitor the aid being given to the slaves who had escaped to, or been brought within, Union lines, Carpenter recorded miles traveled, the weather, and conditions of…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Indiana, loc:Tennessee, pd:1977, su:African American, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:northern perspective, su:religion, su:slavery, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:narrative

An Incident

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Marion Al, pd:1885, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:medical, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Young Girl in the Missouri Border War

“Sympathy with CSA, members of a family in the CSA army.”

As I Saw It

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Mexico MO, loc:Missouri, loc:St. Louis MO, pd:1902, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

A Love-Sick Volunteer

“Summer of 1861. Place not stated. A story of romance early in the war.”

Tags: era:1861, pd:1893, su:war experience, su:warfront

An Arkansas Lady in the Civil War: Reminiscences of Susan Fletcher

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Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Little Rock AR, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Boy's Impressions of the Battle of Franklin

"November 1864. Franklin, Tennessee. The battle in Middle Tennessee as seen by a youngster.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1864, he:Battle of Franklin, loc:Franklin TN, loc:Tennessee, su:battlefield, su:child boy, su:civilian, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Glimpse at Occupied New Orleans: The Diary of Thomas H. Duval of Texas, 1863-1865

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Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:southern, era:1863, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Louisville, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1989, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:southern, su:unionist, su:war experience, ts:diary

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