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Laurence M. Keitt's Letters from the Provisional Congress of the Confederacy, 1861“February 13 - August 20, 1861. Montgomery, Alabama, and Richmond, Virginia. A young "Calhoonist" describes the creation of the CSA Congress.”
Sue Sparks Keitt to a Northern Friend, March 4, 1861“March 4, 1861. Marlborough District, South Carolina. Mrs. Keitt, of South Carolina, offered Mrs. Brown with two reasons why Southern states were…
Beleaguered Charleston: Letters from the City, 1860-1864, Part 1
The Southern Diary of William John Grayson, Part 2"May 10-November 18, 1862. This elderly Charleston political and literary figure was an ardent defender of slavery, but suspicious of the motives of…
The Southern Diary of William John Grayson, Part 1"May 10-November 18, 1862. This elderly Charleston political and literary figure was an ardent defender of slavery, but suspicious of the motives of…
Beleaguered Charleston: Letters from the City, 1860-1864, Part 3
Beleaguered Charleston: Letters from the City, 1860-1864, Part 2"December 25, 1861 - December 31, 1867. Diary with brief entries, written carefully by the wife of East Tennessee Presbyterian minister."
"December 25, 1861 - December 31, 1867. Diary with brief entries, written carefully by the wife of East Tennessee Presbyterian minister."
Hospital Pencillings: Being a Diary While in Jefferson General Hospital, Jeffersonville, Ind., and Others at Nashville, Tennessee, as Matron and Visitor"The book is less an account of scenes inside hospital walls than its title indicates. Her story is about equally divided between her observations in…