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The Evacuation of Richmond: Personal Recollections of Mrs. Amella Gorgas as Recorded in Her Diary
“April 2, 1865. Richmond, Virginia. Fall of the Confederate capital, as described in the diary of the CSA Ordnance Officer.”
Sue Sparks Keitt to a Northern Friend, March 4, 1861
“March 4, 1861. Marlborough District, South Carolina. Mrs. Keitt, of South Carolina, offered Mrs. Brown with two reasons why Southern states were leaving the Union: the election of Abraham Lincoln and the tyrannical intentions of the "Black…
Suffering in Fredericksburg: Refugees Returned After Battle to Find Chaos in Old City
“Early in 1863. Fredericksburg, Virginia. A description of destruction in the Virginia river town.”
South after Gettysburg: Letters of Cornelia Hancock from the Army of the Potomac, 1863-1865
“Cornelia Hancock served in the Federal hospitals, and her book is largely concerned with details of hospital life. She makes very few comments on the country or the people of the Confederacy. She was certain that Virginia could not compare with her…
Plantation Experiences of a New York Woman, Part 2
“Letters to the author's parents in New York, 1853-1867, from Greene County, NC, and Ware County, GA, includes six wartime communications.”
Plantation Experiences of a New York Woman, Part 1
“Letters to the author's parents in New York, 1853-1867, from Greene County, NC, and Ware County, GA, includes six wartime communications.”
A Warrensburg Family During the Civil War
“1861-1865. Warrensburg, Missouri. The impact of the conflict upon a family in western Missouri.”
A Prayer For The Spirit Of Acceptance: The Journal of Martha Wayles Robertson, 1860-66
“1860-1866. Robertson's diary often takes the form of a prayer, written as a spiritual exercise in self examination and communion with God. An early entry considered the threat of fratricide a national error, and she asked for God to reconcile the…
Memoirs of Dr. Winthrop Hartly Hopson
“Experiences of Campbellite minister in Missouri. Incarcerated as Southern sympathizer during the war, then served under John Morgan as a chaplain.”