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Inside the Confederate Government: The Diary of Robert Garlick Hill Kean, Head of the Bureau of War.
“From September 15, 1861, to December 1865, this is a diary of a proud young Virginian who served as Head of the CSA Bureau of War. He viewed his colleagues in the Southern bureaucracy with clarity and occasional wit and recorded much of the internal…
How a Woman Helped to Save Richmond
“March 1884. Richmond, Virginia. The wife of the Confederate secretary of War helps to thwart Ulric Dahlgren’s raid on the CSA capital.”
Gleanings from Southland: Sketches of Life and Manners of the People of the South Before, During, and After the War of Secession, with Extracts from the Author's Journal and Epitome of the New South.
“Only edition. Cumming is best known for her JOURNAL OF HOSPITAL LIFE IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY OF TENNESSEE (1866), valuable and informative work on her nursing duties during the latter part of the Civil War. Written nearly 30 years later, GLEANINGS…
