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Defeat in Victory: Yankee Experience in Early Civil War Jacksonville
“March-April 1862. Diaries. Keene was a Northerner who had recently come to Florida to operate a hotel. He joined a local militia unit at the start of the secession crisis but resigned when it entered state service. In Jacksonville, where Union and…
Fight in a Mississippi Church in 1863
“Fall of 1863. Rodney, Mississippi. A recollection of a Presbyterian congregation’s work to save its building during an assault by the Yankees.”
From Gloom to Glory
“Late 1864. Middle Tennessee. A former Confederate chaplain offers a story about the joys of going from “rags and tatters” as Confederate paper is exchanged for “a 20-gold piece.”
Inside the Lines at Franklin
“1864. Franklin, Tennessee. A former “schoolgirl of 1864” remembers the “awful battle at Franklin.”