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Three Hundred Miles in a Wagon
“Summer of 1865. Central Alabama to Franklin, Tennessee. A former Confederate refugee from the Union occupation carefully remembers her long wagon trip back home a few weeks after the end of the war.”
Two Letters of H. Winbourne Drake, Civil War Refugee in Northwest Louisiana
“An account of flight to northwest Louisiana, surprisingly to find happiness and comfort.”
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.”
Social Life in Old New Orleans, Being Recollections of my Girlhood
“Social life, plantation, New Orleans during War.”
Recollections of Henry Watkins Allen: Brigadier-General Confederate States Army, Ex-Governor of Louisiana.
“Wartime governor of Louisiana.”
Princess of Glendale: A Story of the South
“War, slavery, and politics.”
New Orleans at War: A Merchant's View
“June 8, 1861 -April 4, 1862. A manager of cotton brokerage reported the effects of the Federal blockade to one of the firm's owners. He included the state of the cotton market, the city's defenses, and the activities of the British Guard Battalion,…
Memoirs of a Southern Woman "Within the Line," and a Genealogical Record
Mary Jones Polk was born in Tennessee, the daughter of Dr. William Julius Polk and Mary Rebecca Long Polk. Her parents were married at Mt. Gallant, in Halifax County, North Carolina, in 1814 or 1818. They moved to Columbia, Tennessee, in 1828 or…
Major Hall's Wife: A Thrilling Story of the Life of a Southern Wife and Mother, While a Refugee in the Confederacy, During the Late Struggle
“Wife of Major Geoffrey Hall, Louisiana C.S.A., a refugee's life in Louisiana.”