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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 after the war.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Benton County Ak, loc:Chattanooga County GA, loc:Georgia, loc:Washington GA, pd:1930, su:confederate, su:military, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

Governor John Gill Shorter Executive Papers

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Blus Spring AL, loc:Montgomery AL, loc:Winston County Al, pd:1961, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:political, su:seccession, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Governor Letcher's Candid Correspondence

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1964, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Grandfather's tales of North Carolina history.

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:North Carolina, su:confederate, su:local history, su:southern, ts:narrative

He Taught Near Eudora, Arkansas, in the Early Sixties

“Secondary article about Milan W. Seri, a young teacher from Wisconsin, who came to Arkansas in 1860, includes long portions of Seri's journal.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1860, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Eudora Ar, loc:Missouri, loc:St. Louis MO, pd:1959, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:education, su:northern perspective, su:observer, su:slavery, su:travel, ts:narrative

Heel-Fly Time in Texas: A Story of the Civil War Period

“Reminiscences of the author, chased by "Heel-flys", young home guards, often gangs who terrorized unprotected civilians, even returned soldiers. Originally written in 1911 by Hunter and published Anon, in “Hunter's Magazine," but as a pamphlet,…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Hopkins County Tx, loc:Texas, pd:1910, su:camp life, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Henry M. Stanley in Arkansas and the Dixie Grays

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Shiloh, loc:Corinth MS, loc:Mississippi, loc:Tennessee, milt:6th Arkansas Regiment of Volunteers CSA, pd:1942, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:prison, su:warfront, ts:memory

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