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He Taught Near Eudora, Arkansas, in the Early Sixties
“Secondary article about Milan W. Seri, a young teacher from Wisconsin, who came to Arkansas in 1860, includes long portions of Seri's journal.”
Life in the South: From the Commencement of the War. Vol 1
“Miss Catherine Cooper Hopley was an English schoolteacher who had been living with relatives in Indiana a few years before going South to teach in 1860. She was a cultured, middle-class woman, a close observer who also read newspapers and kept…
Life in the South: From the Commencement of the War. Vol 2
“Miss Catherine Cooper Hopley was an English schoolteacher who had been living with relatives in Indiana a few years before going South to teach in 1860. She was a cultured, middle-class woman, a close observer who also read newspapers and kept…
A Confederate Nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot
“Ada W. Bacot's diary of her experiences as a nurse in the South Carolina hospital for Confederate soldiers in Charlottesville, Virginia provides a rare record of Confederate hospital life as perceived by a lady volunteer. Bacot, a young widow, did…