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No Compromise with Principle: Autobiography and Biography of William Harris Hardy in Dialogue.

“Hardy served with distinction in the Confederate Army, but the primary value of this book is the description of Mississippi in the post-war years.”

“Recalled her war years at Clover Hill, plantation source of coal for Richmond.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Clover Hill Va, loc:Virginia, pd:1932, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:seccession, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1932, su:confederate, su:family narrative, su:military, su:spy, su:warfront, ts:correspondence, ts:memory

“Much on CSA, knew Lee and Jackson.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Lexington VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1920, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography

“The author recorded her Anti-Slavery and Civil War memories, work for the soldiers, a brighter side of life in the Civil War, etc.”

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, su:childhood, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:non-slaveholding white, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:seccession, ts:memory, ts:narrative

“Often poignant contemporary views of the war's effects among recent German immigrants in the hill country north of Fort Smith.”

Tags: au:female, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, pd:1947, su:family narrative, su:German, su:homefront, su:travel, ts:correspondence, ts:memory

Tags: au:female, pd:1893, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:family narrative, su:homefront, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Fredericksburg VA, loc:Port Tobago Plantation, loc:Washington D.C., pd:1943, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, ts:diary

Tags: au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1912, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:local history, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory