“1861-1864. Letters. Relates her departure from east Tennessee for Chester District, SC, only one day before the Union troops arrived. McCalla describes her efforts to care for her children (one son died, and another was born) and to raise crops on…
“February 3, 1861 - December 10, 1862. Montgomery, Alabama, and Richmond and Virginia battle frontier. Extracts, from letters to his wife, by key Georgia moderate secessionist, describe events in Confederate congress and then from Virginia…