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The Women of the Confederacy

“An excellent history of the role of Women of the Confederacy, Topics covered include "Relations with the Enemy," "Instances of Heroism" and "The Misery of Defeat."

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1936, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:medical, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:narrative

Thomas R.R. Cobb: Extracts from Letters to his Wife, February 3, 1861-December 10, 1862

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“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…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, pd:1900, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

To Tuscaloosa and Beyond: A Union Cavalry Raider in Alabama, March-April 1865

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Georgia, pd:1982, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory

Under the Guns: A Woman’s Reminiscences of the Civil War, With an Introduction by Mrs. General U.S. Grant

“By an Iowa lady why served in Union hospitals useful for Southern life described-Chattanooga, Vicksburg, Nashville, and most other areas of the CSA "west".

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Georgia, loc:Iowa, loc:Keokuk Iowa, loc:Mississippi, loc:South Carolina, pd:1895, su:female experience, su:medical, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Vicksburg, he:Siege of Vicksburg, loc:Claiborne Parish LA, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, milt:Claiborne Invincibles, pd:1964, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:diary

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The Women of the Confederacy

Thomas R.R. Cobb: Extracts from Letters to his Wife, February 3, 1861-December 10, 1862

NO WEBSITE

To Tuscaloosa and Beyond: A Union Cavalry Raider in Alabama, March-April 1865

Under the Guns: A Woman’s Reminiscences of the Civil War, With an Introduction by Mrs. General U.S. Grant

Valkyria, or Chaplets of Mars

Vicksburg And After: Being the Experience of a Southern Merchant and Non-Combatant during the Sixties

Vicksburg Diary: The Journal of Gabriel M. Killgore

Vicksburg in 1862

Virginia Heroine, Mrs. E.A. Obenchain

War as I Saw It: 1861-1865, Part 1