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War Recollections, Story of the Evacuation of Petersburg, by an Eye-Witness; A Sad and Solemn Sabbath

“April 1, 1865. Petersburg, Virginia. A personal account of the education of key city south of Richmond.”

Tags: au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Petersburg VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1894, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:education, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

“1862- 1865. Near Winchester, Virginia. Recollections of a lady, near ninety years old, of events near her home in the Shenandoah Valley.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, loc:Winchester VA, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:non-slaveholding white, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:memory

“1862- 1865. Near Winchester, Virginia. Recollections of a lady, near ninety years old, of events near her home in the Shenandoah Valley.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, loc:Winchester VA, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:non-slaveholding white, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:memory

“1862- 1865. Near Winchester, Virginia. Recollections of a lady, near ninety years old, of events near her home in the Shenandoah Valley.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, loc:Winchester VA, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:non-slaveholding white, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:memory

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:Virginia, su:African American, su:civilian, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Siege of Vicksburg, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, pd:1878, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:military, su:observer, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Siege of Vicksburg, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, pd:1907, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:economics, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

Tags: au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1896, su:battlefield, su:military, su:occupation, su:political, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:Columbus NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1962, su:civilian, su:economics, su:occupation, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:correspondence

“Based on boyhood experiences of Page and his brother Roswell.”