“Excellent summary of the conditions near Port Royal and Beaufort, SC in Civil War, where Miss Botume worked for the Freedmen's Aid Society—her work as a teacher there led to this excellent account of the woeful conditions among the newly freed…
“April 2-8, 1865. An unauthorized trip through the Federal blockade up the James River by a party of Englishmen. Moseley, an accountant from London, described the ruins and the high price of goods at Petersburg and the devastation in Richmond, but he…
“1861-1863. Liberated from his master in Missouri by Union soldiers, Williams and his family moved to Fort Scott, then Lawrence, Kansas (where he witnessed Quantrill's Raid), and finally to Topeka.”