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A Red-Headed Rebel
“Unknown time or place. A cute wartime story.”
A Reminiscence of Christmas of 1861
“December 25, 1861. Northern Virginia. The first Yuletide day of the war at Stuart's Cavern.”
A Report on Civil War America: Sir James Fergusson's Five-Week Visit
“September 17-October 23, 1861. Letter. Conservative member of the British Parliament. Traveled in both the North and South and visited the major personalities of the war. This letter to Lord Palmerston revealed that Fergusson favored the South and…
A Republic Within the Confederacy and Other Recollections of 1864
“A Union lieutenant from Iowa recalls events behind the lines in occupied north Alabama and Mississippi.”
A Roundabout Way Home
“1865. Kentucky. The first weeks at home for a former Confederate chaplain.”
A Sassy Little Rebel
“1861. Washington, D.C. CSA sympathies of a spunky girl in Parkersburg, WV.”
A Southern Woman's Bravery
“1863. Vicksburg to Brandon, Mississippi. A confederate veteran recalls how a brave woman—assisted by a Union captain from Wisconsin—save her family’s treasures from Yankee plunderers.”
A Southern Woman's Wartime Reminiscences
“Benefit of Shiloh Monument Fund; description of a trip from Mobile to Memphis, and life in Alabama and Georgia.”
A Virginia Boy in the Sixties
“1861-1865. Mechanicsville, Virginia. A wartime youngster describes the toilsome years on the eastern edge of Richmond.”