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The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865
"December 19, 1864—August 2, 1865. Andrews traveled over a broken railroad system and in wagons from Washington to a plantation near Albany, across the route of Sherman's march across Georgia. On the trains, she listened to a Confederate soldier…
From Flag to Flag: A Woman's Adventures and Experiences in the South During the War, in Mexico, and in Cuba
“Mrs. Ripley and her husband lived on a Mississippi River plantation four miles below Baton Rouge, Louisiana. After the fall of New Orleans and the fighting around Baton Rouge, the Ripley’s fled to Texas. Sending some of their slaves ahead, they set…
Social Life in Old New Orleans, Being Recollections of my Girlhood
“Social life, plantation, New Orleans during War.”
Plantation Life in the Sixties
“1861-1865. Western North Carolina. A young wife shares her memories of the war years in “the valley of the Tucakaseega River.” In Jackson County, North Carolina.”
A Woman Rice Planter
“NEW YORK SUN columns written by the bankrupt daughter of a former South Carolina governor reveal the struggles Southerners faced after the Civil War.”
Chronicles of Chicora Wood
“About one-third of this memoir by a member of a truly respected South Carolina family describes her difficulties and hardships during the war years.”
Letters From Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War.
“The New England schoolmarms and reformers who came to the South to aid the freedmen at Port Royal, SC described their experiences in the Sea Islands during the Civil War era”.