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Excerpts from the Wartime Correspondence of Augustine T. Smythe

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Early Charlottesville: Recollections of James Alexander, 1828-1874. Reprinted from the Jeffersonian Republican

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Extracts from the Schirmer Diary, 1860, part 1

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Extracts from the Schirmer Diary, 1860, Part 2

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Evacuation of Richmond

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Elk Horn to Vicksburg

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Elk Horn Tavern, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, milt:Company E First Missouri Volunteers Cavalry CSA, milt:First Missouri Volunteers CSA, pd:1956, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:diary

Extracts from War-Time Letters, 1861-1864

“November 12, 1861-June 16, 1865. Westport, Missouri. Six letters from a young woman to her mother which describes the severe effects of the war on the western border.”

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Dickison and his men. Reminiscences of the War in Florida.

Tags: 2d Regt. 1862-1865. Florida artillery, au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, pd:1890, su:confederate, su:military, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Defeat in Victory: Yankee Experience in Early Civil War Jacksonville

“March-April 1862. Diaries. Keene was a Northerner who had recently come to Florida to operate a hotel. He joined a local militia unit at the start of the secession crisis but resigned when it entered state service. In Jacksonville, where Union and…

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Douglas: Tender and True

“Plantation life during the war, a Southern belle in love with a soldier in Hood's Texas Brigade.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, pd:1892, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:war experience, ts:narrative

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