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Life in the South: From the Commencement of the War. Vol 1
“Miss Catherine Cooper Hopley was an English schoolteacher who had been living with relatives in Indiana a few years before going South to teach in 1860. She was a cultured, middle-class woman, a close observer who also read newspapers and kept…
Sketches of the war: a series of letters to the North Moore Street School of New York.
“Although these letters were addressed to school children, they give a close-up view of the country and inhabitants of northwestern Tennessee and western Kentucky. Nott, a resident of New York City at the outbreak of the Civil War, went to St. Louis…
The Hidden Way to Dixie
"1863. Washington, D.C. to Richmond, Virginia. A New York businessman’s account of his trip to CSA."
Memoirs, Letters, and Diary Entries of German Settlers in Northwest Arkansas, 1853-1863
“Often poignant contemporary views of the war's effects among recent German immigrants in the hill country north of Fort Smith.”
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…
He Taught Near Eudora, Arkansas, in the Early Sixties
“Secondary article about Milan W. Seri, a young teacher from Wisconsin, who came to Arkansas in 1860, includes long portions of Seri's journal.”
Six Months in the Federal States
“Edward Dicey was an English author and journalist, on his trip to America he was the special correspondent of MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE and the SPECTATOR. Portions of his American account appeared in the pages of these periodicals before being…
A Visit to South Carolina in 1860
“April 1860. South Carolina. This observer recalled the key personalities and places in Charleston and Columbia in the year before the war began.”