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Lifetime Recollections: An Interesting Narrative of Life in the Southern States Before and During the Civil War, with Incidents of the Bombardment of Atlanta by the Union Forces, the Author Being then a Resident of that City
“Life in Southern states before and during the War, incidents in the bombardment of Atlanta, GA.”
Letters From Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War.
“The New England schoolmarms and reformers who came to the South to aid the freedmen at Port Royal, SC described their experiences in the Sea Islands during the Civil War era”.
Life in the Confederate Army, Being the Observations and Experiences on an Alien in the
South During the American Civil War
“First, American edition. Watson, a Scotsman, emigrated to America a few years before the war and established a small business in Baton Rouge. Although a British subject, he enlisted in the Confederate Army on the outbreak of war.”
Letters from Little Rock of Captain James M. Bowler, 112th United States Colored Troops
“The letters of a Union captain to his wife and mother written during his stay in the area around Little Rock, from July to December 1864.”
Local Incidents of the War Between the States
"As a state historian for the U.D.C., Mrs. Cappieman gave her account of the war in the year 1901. The locale of her reminiscence’s centers on Claiborne County, MS. Through personal recollection, she vividly describes life in Mississippi during the…
Letters of George Caleb Bingham to James S. Rollins, Part 1
“Bingham was an artist from Kansas City, MO who often wrote about the shortages of money and basic living supplies, to his cousin-in-law who was in the Union army.”
Letters of George Caleb Bingham to James S. Rollins Part 2
“Bingham was an artist from Kansas City, MO who often wrote about the shortages of money and basic living supplies, to his cousin-in-law who was in the Union army.”