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Wilson's Raid and Other Recital
Autobiography of Samuel S. Hildebrand: The Renowned Missouri "Bushwhacker," Being His Complete Confession“A fascinating account of guerrilla warfare in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas during the Civil War. Hildebrand was a Southern partisan who…
The Call to Arms: Secession from a Feminine Point of View“The ladies of Broward's Neck, Duval County, East Florida, November 6, 1860.”
Down South: An Englishman's Experience at the Seat of the American War“Day came to the United States as a correspondent for the London MORNING HERALD to report conditions North and South. He landed at New York and, went…
Missouri History Not Found in Textbooks: Sale of Slaves at Columbia in 1864
Remainiscing in Lively Vein“December 1864. Near Eatonton, Georgia. An Arkansas rifleman remembers some interesting events from his experience in Georgia as a straggler trying to…
Going Home From the Army“April-May 1865. Greensboro, North Carolina to Benton County, Arkansas. An Arkansas paroled soldier recalls the many intricacies of his journey home…
Recollections of Samuel Gourdin Gaillard
The Autobiography of William John Grayson, Part 1“1860-1865. South Carolina. This sometimes, rambling and often fiercely pro-Southern recollection was written in Newberry and Charleston, South…
The Autobiography of William John Grayson, Part 2“1860-1865. South Carolina. This sometimes, rambling and often fiercely pro-Southern recollection was written in Newberry and Charleston, South…