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The Confederate Treasury
“April-May 1865. Richmond to Georgia. A brief account of the fate of Confederate gold and paper reserved on the flight from Virginia.”
Life in Confederate Arkansas: The Diary of Virginia Davis Gray, 1863-1866, Part II
"Virginia wife of the former principal of Princeton Female Academy, busied herself sewing clothes for the soldiers, working as a nurse, attending religious functions, and reading. She wrote about the war in Arkansas and her fear of Federal…
Life in Confederate Arkansas: The Diary of Virginia Davis Gray, 1863-1865, Part I
"Virginia wife of the former principal of Princeton Female Academy, busied herself sewing clothes for the soldiers, working as a nurse, attending religious functions, and reading. She wrote about the war in Arkansas and her fear of Federal…
Illium in Flames
“February-March 1865. Columbia, South Carolina. A collection of descriptions of the destruction of the South Carolina capital.”
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.”
Occurrences at Lee's Surender
“April 1865. Appomattox Court House, Virginia. An eyewitness remembers many of the details of the historic surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.”
South after Gettysburg: Letters of Cornelia Hancock from the Army of the Potomac, 1863-1865
“Cornelia Hancock served in the Federal hospitals, and her book is largely concerned with details of hospital life. She makes very few comments on the country or the people of the Confederacy. She was certain that Virginia could not compare with her…
The Last Ninety Days of the War in North Carolina
“Preface: "was originally published in the New York Watchman."
The Burning of Columbia, S.C., A Review of Northern Assertions and Southern Facts.
“The Southern version of the destruction of the capital of South Carolina—often reprinted—by a distinguished eyewitness.”