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“1861-1865. Tuskegee, Alabama. A young man’s remembrance of the war years, his fathers’ close friend William L. Yancey, Union raids under General Wilson in 1865, and “the reign of’ Reconstruction.”

“June 1865. Austin, Texas. Forty robbers attempt to steal “100,000 in gold and 400,000 in paper money."

“1861-1864. Jacksonville, Florida, and South Georgia. A lady describes the coming of the war to north Florida and her family’s efforts to escape to South Georgia.”

“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 as a teacher there led to this excellent account of the woeful conditions among the newly freed…

“Letter written by Cole's mother to "Cousin Blanche" of Franklin, TN, on November 2, 1862, described the realities of the war near her home at Ripley, Mississippi.”