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Escape of Breckinridge and Benjamin
“April-May 1865. Richmond To Charleston. A friend of John C. Breckinridge summarizes an 1874 conversation about the secret trips out of the defeated South by two key Confederates.”
Life in Richmond, 1863-1865
“1863-1865. Richmond, Virginia. A former Ordinance Bureau officer remembers the realities of the war years in the Confederate capital.”
Letters from Lee's Army; or, Memoirs of Life in and out of the Army in Virginia During the War Between the States.
“Compiled by Susan Leigh Blackford, from original and contemporaneous memoirs, correspondence and diaries. Annotated by her husband, Charles Minor Blackford. Edited and abridged for publication by Charles Minor Blackford.”
Some Letters of the Barnard Elliott Habersham Family 1858-1868
“January 20, 1858 - April 27, 1868. South Carolina and Virginia. Some wartime letters of the family of an Episcopal rector in Sumter County, South Carolina.”
Inside the Confederate Government: The Diary of Robert Garlick Hill Kean, Head of the Bureau of War.
“From September 15, 1861, to December 1865, this is a diary of a proud young Virginian who served as Head of the CSA Bureau of War. He viewed his colleagues in the Southern bureaucracy with clarity and occasional wit and recorded much of the internal…