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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…
The Americans at Home: Pen & Ink Sketches of American Men, Manners and Institutions“Journey through the South on war and its aftermath, talking to both Union and CSA leaders: Lee, Grant, Semmes, Beauregard, Maffitt, Vance & D.H.…
Letters from Little Rock of Captain James M. Bowler, 112th United States Colored Troops“The letters of a Union captain to his wife and mother written during his stay in the area around Little Rock, from July to December 1864.”
Ruin and Reconstruction of Southern States
First Days Amongst the Contrabands“Excellent summary of the conditions near Port Royal and Beaufort, SC in Civil War, where Miss Botume worked for the Freedmen's Aid Society—her work…
A Journey Among the Contrabands: The Diary of Walter Totten Carpenter“January 1-March 24, 1864. Sent by the Indiana Quakers to Tennessee and Alabama to monitor the aid being given to the slaves who had escaped to, or…
A Southerner Views the South, 1865: Letters of Harvey M. Watterson“June 7-July 8, 1865. North Carolina and Richmond, Virginia. This observer was sent to the defeated south to report to Andrew Johnson, a fellow…
War, Politics, and Reconstruction: Stormy Days in Louisiana“An autobiographical account by a key leader during the Reconstruction period in Louisiana.”
Freedom: Wartime Genesis: Lower South
Rumbling of the Chariot Wheels“An account of the Civil War-era "doings and misdoing in the barefooted period of a boy's life on a southern plantation" in the South Carolina Sea…