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A Virginian's Diary in Civil War Days
“August 17 to December 31, 1862. Kinloch Plantation Fauquier County, Virginia. This article is almost entirely composed of entries from the diary of a plantation owner, Edward Carter Turner, Unionist who described the ravages of the war in Northern…
A Woman Rice Planter
“NEW YORK SUN columns written by the bankrupt daughter of a former South Carolina governor reveal the struggles Southerners faced after the Civil War.”
Adventures of a Fair Rebel
“Author from Louisiana lived in Georgia contributed to magazines, etc.”
Airy Mount -- In Sherman's Track
“November 1894-January 1865. Near Oxford, Georgia. A recollection of the sad realities of Sherman’s march through the area of a proud plantation presided over by the daughter of Methodist Bishop Andrew.”
An Errand to the South in the Summer of 1862
“The Rev. W. Wyndham Malet was Vicar of Ardeley, near Buntingford, Hertfordshire, England. He came to America to visit his sister at Conway, SC. He traveled by steamer from Baltimore to Fortress Monroe, on a British warship to Charleston, by train to…
ANTE-BELLUM AND WAR MEMORIES OF MRS. TELFAIR HODGSON
“Wartime memories from a plantation near Savannah.”
Autobiography of James L. Smith: Including also, Reminiscences of Slave Life, Recollections of the War, Education of Freedmen, Causes of the Exodus, etc.
“A description of the war by a slave driven from the Memphis area to Alabama and Mississippi.”
