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"My Dear Husband": A Texas Slave's Love Letter, 1862
December 28, 1862. Expressions of worry about and love for her husband Norfleet, a bondsman to enslaver Theophilus Perry (28th Texas Cavalry), who had gone into military service as Perry’s "personal servant.”
Our Faithful Slaves of Old
"1861-1865. General. Memories of loyal slaves during the war."
A Daughter of the Confederacy: A Story of the Old South and the New
“Southern life in the South during the War.”
A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War
“1861-1865. Near Eufaula, Alabama. Recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during a blockade imposed on the South, life on a plantation.”
A Virginian's Diary in Civil War Days
“August 17 to December 31, 1862. Kinloch Plantation Fauquier County, Virginia. This article is almost entirely composed of entries from the diary of a plantation owner, Edward Carter Turner, Unionist who described the ravages of the war in Northern…
My Greatest Childhood Sorrow
“Unknown time or place. A said recollection of the effects of the war on a young boy’s neighbor.”
Old Plantation days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War
“Actually misleading, for it contains much on the war, Sherman's March through Georgia and South Carolina, also includes beginning of conflict at Charleston.”