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Manuscripts: Yancey-Davis Letters, Part 2
“Letters to and from William Lowndes Yancey on life in Alabama, before and during the War and difficulties facing the CSA.”
The Southern Diary of William John Grayson, Part 1
"May 10-November 18, 1862. This elderly Charleston political and literary figure was an ardent defender of slavery, but suspicious of the motives of those who favored secession. He opposed all who made war. The important events of the period—Shiloh,…
The Southern Diary of William John Grayson, Part 2
"May 10-November 18, 1862. This elderly Charleston political and literary figure was an ardent defender of slavery, but suspicious of the motives of those who favored secession. He opposed all who made war. The important events of the period—Shiloh,…
The Autobiography of William John Grayson, Part 2
“1860-1865. South Carolina. This sometimes, rambling and often fiercely pro-Southern recollection was written in Newberry and Charleston, South Carolina, and described events in the state—while defending the South and its efforts.”
The Journal of Sergt. Wm. J. McKell
The Journal of Sergt. Wm. J. McKell is a large number of stories written by prisoners of war describing the privations and suffering of prison life, North and South, during the Civü War. The following narrative is similar in many respects to those…
Three Letters of William Henry Trescot to Howell Cobb, 1861
“January 14-February 3, 1861. Beaufort, South Carolina. Concerns South Carolinian Trescot's involvement in the secession crisis.”
The McDonalds; or, The Ashes of Southern Homes. A Tale of Sherman's March
“May be fiction, reviewed in THE LAND WE LOVE, III (1867), 270-272.”
Reminiscences of Public Men in Alabama, for Thirty Years.
“Reminiscence in chronological form for the period from 1837 to 1868.”