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Life in Confederate Arkansas: The Diary of Virginia Davis Gray, 1863-1865, Part I
"Virginia wife of the former principal of Princeton Female Academy, busied herself sewing clothes for the soldiers, working as a nurse, attending religious functions, and reading. She wrote about the war in Arkansas and her fear of Federal…
Life in Confederate Arkansas: The Diary of Virginia Davis Gray, 1863-1866, Part II
"Virginia wife of the former principal of Princeton Female Academy, busied herself sewing clothes for the soldiers, working as a nurse, attending religious functions, and reading. She wrote about the war in Arkansas and her fear of Federal…
Letters From Nashville, 1862: "Dear Master"
“1862. The Military Governor of Tennessee (Andrew Johnson) arrested General William Giles Harding as a political prisoner. During his six-month incarceration, his plantation, "Belle Meade," was managed by his wife, Elizabeth. These letters indicate…
Life in the South: From the Commencement of the War. Vol 1
“Miss Catherine Cooper Hopley was an English schoolteacher who had been living with relatives in Indiana a few years before going South to teach in 1860. She was a cultured, middle-class woman, a close observer who also read newspapers and kept…
Life in the South: From the Commencement of the War. Vol 2
“Miss Catherine Cooper Hopley was an English schoolteacher who had been living with relatives in Indiana a few years before going South to teach in 1860. She was a cultured, middle-class woman, a close observer who also read newspapers and kept…
Letters of John Letcher to J. Hierholzer, 1864-1865
“November 3, 1864-May 16, 1865. Lexington, Virginia. The former governor of Virginia described the effects of the war in the valley and his own opinions of the combat, in three letters to a merchant in Richmond.”