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The White Castle of Louisiana

“Before, during, and after War, on a Louisiana plantation.”

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Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:antebellum, loc:Louisiana, loc:white castle la, pd:1903, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:nottoway plantation, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:correspondence, ts:diary, ts:memory

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, loc:Carterville GA, loc:Georgia, pd:1903, su:enslaved, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Charlottesville VA, loc:Rose Cottage Plantation VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1869, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Jacksonport Ar, pd:1950, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory, ts:narrative

“CSA General, of 6th Tennessee.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:McNairy County TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1882, su:civilian, su:family narrative, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

“1861-1865. Virginia. The war years as recalled by a woman who was five years of age when the conflict began.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1923, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Antietam, loc:Shepherdstown WV, loc:West Virginia, pd:1886, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

“1861-1865. Texas to Kentucky. The recollections of Texas wife who tried to follow her husband toward the war front, where he died.”

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“May-July 1863. Vicksburg, Mississippi. A young man’s memories of the siege and capture of the river port.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, pd:1929, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:political, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative