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Evablina -- Last of the Old Virinia Slaves“General. A remembrance of a loyal family servant.”
Escape of Breckinridge and Benjamin“April-May 1865. Richmond To Charleston. A friend of John C. Breckinridge summarizes an 1874 conversation about the secret trips out of the defeated…
Extracts from the Memoirs of William Franklin Avera
Exhumation of the Body of John C. Calhoun 1863
Eneas Africanus“Mentioned travels in North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana, in the years 1864 to 1872.”
Echoes from hospital and White House
Freedom: Wartime Genesis: Lower South
From the 'Eastern Shore' of Virgina"1861. Eastern shore of Virginia. A native of the region east of Chesapeake Bay declares “This entire country... was intensely Southern in sentiment.”
First Days Amongst the Contrabands“Excellent summary of the conditions near Port Royal and Beaufort, SC in Civil War, where Miss Botume worked for the Freedmen's Aid Society—her work…
Faithful Negroes Who Were Slaves