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How I took a Letter on a Yankee General
“No Date. Maryland to “Western Virginia.” A schoolgirl’s teasing of an “enemy” officer.”
In Sherman's Wake
“February-March 1865. Marlboro County, South Carolina. A young student at the Federal Academy in Bennettsville, South Carolina describes the Union troops’ dash through that town and school.”
Inside the Lines at Franklin
“1864. Franklin, Tennessee. A former “schoolgirl of 1864” remembers the “awful battle at Franklin.”
Memories of Long Ago
“1861- 1865. Richmond, Virginia. A recollection of the Confederate Capital, especially women’s work in the hospitals.”
Mrs. Tinsley's War Recollections, 1862-1865
“1862-1863. Near Richmond, Virginia. These memoirs, written in 1911 by a plantation wife describe life in the Peninsula-while Yankee troops were invading-and mention Union balloon observers.”
My Childhood Recollections of the War
“1861-1865. Virginia. The war years as recalled by a woman who was five years of age when the conflict began.”
My Confederate Girlhood: The Memoirs of Kate Virginia Cox Logan
“Recalled her war years at Clover Hill, plantation source of coal for Richmond.”
Princess of Glendale: A Story of the South
“War, slavery, and politics.”