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Some Neglected Aspects of the American Civil War: Recollections of John C. Wade
“1861- 1862. Yorktown, Virginia. Recollections of activities on the Peninsula, by an observer who was a boy of twelve years at the time recorded in 1934.”
Sherman's Trail Through South Carolina
“May 1865. South Carolina. The trail of destruction across South Carolina described by an ex-Confederate soldier, immediately after the end of combat.”
Social Life in Old New Orleans, Being Recollections of my Girlhood
“Social life, plantation, New Orleans during War.”
Sixty-One Years of Itinerant Christian Life in Church and State
“Pearne born in 1820, became a Methodist minister, traveled on a mule from Michigan to Oregon, was in the Civil War, worked in the South, etc. A fascinating account.”
Surrender and Homeward Bound
“1865. Mobile to New Orleans to Louisville. A former CSA soldier recalls the last weeks of the war and his return home to Kentucky.”
The Whip, Hoe, and Sword; or, The Gulf-Department in '63
“A good account of life in the lower Mississippi River Valley in 1863 by a visitor from the North— particularly useful for observations of Creoles, the enslaved, and plantations.”
The Tennessee Valley from 1862 to 1865
“1862-1865. North Alabama. A brief summary of war years in the counties near the Tennessee River in north Alabama.”