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Last Scenes of War: How I Got Home

“April-May 1863. Richmond to North Georgia. A former private recalls the weeks from the fall of Richmond until he reached his home in Georgia after a trying journey.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, pd:1919, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

Letters from Columbia County Confederate Soldiers

“From Newell and Sister Effie McEachern, Pocahontas, AR, H.B. Harris to Miss. Smith, Camp Harie, AR, 11 September 1861.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Atlanta AR, loc:Camp Hardie Ar, loc:Pocahontas Ar, milt:Company G 6th Arkansas Infantry, milt:James P. Austin's Columbia Guards, pd:1958, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Letters of James Lusk Alcorn

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc: Eagles Nest MS, loc:Coahoma County MS, loc:Eagles Nest Plantation MS, loc:Mississippi, loc:Mount Place Plantation MS, pd:1937, su:confederate, su:economics, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:political, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Letters in War-Time

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Gettysburg, loc:Gettsburg PA, loc:Pennsylvania, pd:1874, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, ts:correspondence

Kate: The Journal of a Confederate Nurse

“1862-1865. Cumming served as a hospital matron in Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, providing personal services and comfort for the wounded, and supervised the food and cleanliness of the hospitals. She exhorted women to serve in…