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Old Plantation days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War
“Actually misleading, for it contains much on the war, Sherman's March through Georgia and South Carolina, also includes beginning of conflict at Charleston.”
Old Times in Dixie Land: A Southern Matron’s Memories
“Life in old South, before, during, and after the Civil War in Louisiana, includes diary and family conversations.”
On the Plantation: A Story of a Georgia Boy's Adventures During the War
“First published in 1892, ON THE PLANTATION is the most autobiographical of Harris's works and includes extensive examples of his renderings of the African American Geechee dialect.”
One Woman in the Great War
“1864-1865. Petersburg, Virginia. A recollection of the last months of the war, just south of Richmond.”
Our Faithful Slaves of Old
"1861-1865. General. Memories of loyal slaves during the war."
Our Family Physician
“1861-1865. Eastern Virginia. A memory of the valiant work of a Virginia healer, Dr. Ezekiel Starke Tally of Hanover County.”
Our Southern Women in the War Times
“1861-1865. General. The wife of President Davis recalls that “the women of the South did not shrink from the prospect of great and painful economics.”