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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.”
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…
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.”
Reminiscences of the Civil War By J. W. Frederick
“1861-1865. Ten years old when the war began, this observer recalls the patriotic zeal that prompted the principal of his school, the Marshallville Academy (Georgia), to raise a company, recruit most of the older boys, and march off to Virginia.…