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Letters From Nashville, 1862: A Portrait of Belle Meade
“1862. The Military Governor of Tennessee (Andrew Johnson) arrested General William Giles Harding as a political prisoner. During his six-month incarceration, his plantation, "Belle Meade," was managed by his wife, Elizabeth. These letters indicate…
Listen to the Mockingbird: The Life and Times of a Pioneer Virginia Family
“Family life during civil war and reconstruction. John Howe Capt., Co. E., 4th VA.”
Missouri Girl's Prison Experiences
“August 1864. Central Missouri. A young woman from Boonville, Missouri describes her travels after being arrested by Union officers.”
Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove; or, Scenes and Incidents of the War in Arkansas
“An account of life in and around Washington County, Arkansas, during the first years of the war, the author wrote as a Unionist surrounded by Confederates.”
Seven Months a Prisoner, or Thirty-Six Days in the Woods
“Journey through western North Carolina following his escape.”
Sketches of the war: a series of letters to the North Moore Street School of New York.
“Although these letters were addressed to school children, they give a close-up view of the country and inhabitants of northwestern Tennessee and western Kentucky. Nott, a resident of New York City at the outbreak of the Civil War, went to St. Louis…
The Journal of Sergt. Wm. J. McKell
The Journal of Sergt. Wm. J. McKell is a large number of stories written by prisoners of war describing the privations and suffering of prison life, North and South, during the Civü War. The following narrative is similar in many respects to those…