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Civil War Experiences of Sarah J. Yeater, Written in 1909 and 1910 for my Three
Granddaughters, Frances, and Christine Yeater and Jeanette Brookmeyer

“Southern sympathies forced to flee south in Arkansas and Texas.”

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, loc:Osage Academy MO, loc:Osceola MO, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:education, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:slavery, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:autobiography, ts:memory

Cause of Church Seperation

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:antebellum, loc:Pennsylvania, loc:Philadelphia Pa, pd:1927, su:civilian, su:religion, su:southern, ts:narrative

Civil War Memoirs of Mrs. Adeline Deadrick

“1861-March 17, 1869. Eastern Tennessee. In recollections written in 1890 and 1898," Facts Transpiring Within My Own Knowledge During the War in 1863-1864," on outspoken woman describes the many stresses and strains of the war in Appalachian area of…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Chattanooga TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1948, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Chapel Hill at the Close of the War

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Chapel Hill NC, loc:North Carolina, su:civilian, su:education, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Civil War Days in Huntsville

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Huntsville AL, pd:1947, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

Chivalrous Southerners

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, pd:1869, su:African American, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Belles, Beaux and Brains of the 60's,

“A splendid reminiscence of Confederate personalities, rich and poor, male and female, famous and obscure--but difficult to read completely; filled with details of CSA social life.”

Tags: era:1860s, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, pd:1907, su:civilian, su:observer, su:southern, su:travel, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Beleaguered Charleston: Letters from the City, 1860-1864, Part 1

Tags: era:1860s, era:Civil War, he:Blockade of Charleston, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1960, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Boy Memories of the War

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Liberity tn, loc:Tennessee, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:non-slaveholding white, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Bill Arp, So Called: A Sideshow of the Southern Side of the War.

“The Record office was torn down by a mob for publishing this book. Sub-title: ‘I'm a good Union man, so-called but I'll bet on Dixie as long as I've got a dollar.’ (Hodgkins sale-1906 by C.F. Libbie, notes: ‘very rare, only 200 copies ever printed…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, loc:Georgia, pd:1866, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:political, su:southern, ts:correspondence

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