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A Reminiscence of Christmas of 1861
“December 25, 1861. Northern Virginia. The first Yuletide day of the war at Stuart's Cavern.”
A Scouting Expedition During the Civil War
“Undated recollections, apparently fragmentary, or author's movement as a CSA spy, across Potomac in Virginia, as far as Marlborough.”
A Southerner Views the South, 1865: Letters of Harvey M. Watterson
“June 7-July 8, 1865. North Carolina and Richmond, Virginia. This observer was sent to the defeated south to report to Andrew Johnson, a fellow Tennessean, and describe opinions in the region.”
A Virginia Boy in the Sixties
“1861-1865. Mechanicsville, Virginia. A wartime youngster describes the toilsome years on the eastern edge of Richmond.”
A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865: Being a Record of the Actual Experiences of the Wife of a Confederate Officer
“1861-1865. The reminiscences of a young woman, unidentified, ‘in her own words.’ A Virginia girl and the ‘Romance of War’ - Harold Straubig’s Civil War eyewitness.”
A Virginian's Diary in Civil War Days
“August 17 to December 31, 1862. Kinloch Plantation Fauquier County, Virginia. This article is almost entirely composed of entries from the diary of a plantation owner, Edward Carter Turner, Unionist who described the ravages of the war in Northern…
