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Texas Memoirs of Amelia E. Barr

“1857-1867. Austin, Texas. This item is a truly delightful account of the Texas years of the prolific late-nineteenth-century novelist in Austin. By her daughter Lillie Barr Munroe, and includes some very informative views of the war years in the…

Tags: au:female, era:1860s, era:Civil War, loc:Austin TX, loc:Texas, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, ts:memory

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government

“Wiley's introduction summarizes Davis' strengths and weaknesses.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1860s, era:Civil War, pd:1923, su:confederate, su:political, su:seccession, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:correspondence, ts:offical documents

The Private War of Lizzie Hardin: A Kentucky Confederate Girl's Diary of the Civil War in Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia.

“1860-August 2, 1865. Visiting in Abingdon, VA, when the war began, Hardin helped prepare soldiers for battle. Returning home to Harrodsburg, KY, she passed through Unionist East Tennessee. She found Nashville dull after the exhilaration of being…

Tags: au:confederate, au:female, era:1860s, era:Civil War, loc:Harrodsburg KY, loc:Kentucky, pd:1963, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:diary, ts:narrative

Two Boys in the Civil War and After

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1860s, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Columbus GA, loc:Georgia, loc:Montgomery AL, milt:Columbus Guards, pd:1912, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:war experience, ts:memory

The White Castle of Louisiana

“Before, during, and after War, on a Louisiana plantation.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:antebellum, loc:Louisiana, loc:white castle la, pd:1903, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:nottoway plantation, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:correspondence, ts:diary, ts:memory

Reminiscences -- Mother of the Confederacy

“1861-1865. Memphis, Tennessee, and Georgia. A proud Tennessee lady summarizes her untiring efforts to support the Southern “crusade.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:Civil War, loc:Memphis TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1894, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Refugees of 1863

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:undesignated conflict, loc:Atlanta GA, loc:Cassville Ga, loc:Georgia, pd:1947, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:memory

Rev. Jonathan Waverly Bachman

Tags: era:1860s, loc:Chattanooga TN, loc:Tennessee, milt:19th Tennessee Regiment, pd:1893, su:religion, ts:biography

Plantation Life in the Sixties

“1861-1865. Western North Carolina. A young wife shares her memories of the war years in “the valley of the Tucakaseega River.” In Jackson County, North Carolina.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:jackson county, loc:North Carolina, loc:webster nc, pd:1926, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:local history, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:memory

Other Days: Recollections of Rural England and Old Virginia, 1860-1880

Tags: era:1860s, era:1870s, era:1880s, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Glasbury UK, loc:Scotland, loc:Virginia, pd:1913, su:education, su:medical, su:plantation, su:religion, su:slavery

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