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“Recollections of Civil War El Paso.”
The Freedmen of Port Royal
“March 25 to May 10, 1862. Port Royal and Beaufort area. South Carolina. A Northern visitor describes the efforts to educate former slaves from the Sea Islands at Port Royal.”
Memories of Florida; Embracing a General History of the Province, Territory, and State; and Special Chapters Devoted to Finances and Banking, the Bench and Bar, Medical Profession, Railways and Navigation, and Industrial Interests
“Vol. 1, contains events in wartime Florida and rosters of various units.”
Letters To and From Jacob Thompson
“Postwar letters recall Thompson's wartime activities especially as a CSA agent in Europe.”
Papers of Willie Person Mangum
“Whig senator.”
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.”
Boyhood Impressions of the Lexington Missouri, Area, 1858-1863
“Born in 1845, this young observer moved to Lafayette County from Virginia in 1858 and recalled life in west-central Missouri until his family moved to Illinois in 1863.”
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…