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Letters From Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War.“The New England schoolmarms and reformers who came to the South to aid the freedmen at Port Royal, SC described their experiences in the Sea Islands…
Autobiography of William Wood.“Includes his travels in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas.”
Memoirs of Dr. Winthrop Hartly Hopson“Experiences of Campbellite minister in Missouri. Incarcerated as Southern sympathizer during the war, then served under John Morgan as a chaplain.”
The Days That Are No More: or, Plantation Life As it Was, Part 2
The Days that are No More: or, Plantation Life as it Was, Part 1
A Night of Terror“Unknown time. Alabama. A lady recalls a story by her mother about a trying night when lonely women were brave.”
Children of Honor: Letters of Winston and Octavia Stephens, 1861-1862
Rogues and Black Hearted Scamps: Civil War Letters of Winston and Octavia Stephens, 1862-1863
War-Time Journal of a 'Little Rebell'“September 26, 1862-May 2, 1865. Near Courtland, Alabama. Excerpts from the diary of a young lady who began her writing on a plantation at age…
The Colonel's Lady Some Letters of Ellen Wilkins Tompkins, July-December 1861“July-December 1861. When her farm, "Gauley Mount" (Fayette County, Virginia), was occupied by Union forces, Mrs. Thompkins remained rather than…