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An Account of the Sufferings of Friends of North Carolina Yearly Meeting, in Support of Their Testimony Against War, From 1861 to 1865.
“1861-1865. A sad summary of the sufferings by these quiet people.”
A Sassy Little Rebel
“1861. Washington, D.C. CSA sympathies of a spunky girl in Parkersburg, WV.”
Army Relief Work by Women of the Confederacy
“1861-1865. General CSA. A proud summary of confederate Women’s tireless efforts.”
A Daughter of the Confederacy: A Story of the Old South and the New
“Southern life in the South during the War.”
Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Beaufort SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1906, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory, ts:narrative
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 Balcony in Charleston
“Letters of life and times of Caroline Howard Gilman, experiences of a "Confederate Mother", during Civil War, to her sister in the North and to her daughter, the wife of James Russell Lowell.”
A Southern Girl's Diary
“February 10-June 26, 1865. Orangeburg, South Carolina. A girl’s diary records the coming of the Yankee and how the “desecrated. . . Orangeburg,” the “dreadful day” of occupation, the news of a brother’s death, and with defeat—“the gloomy prospect…
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 Child'd Recollections of War
“June 1864-April 1865. Petersburg, Virginia. A little girl’s memories of the trying last months of the war in the key city south of Richmond.”
A Woman Rice Planter
“NEW YORK SUN columns written by the bankrupt daughter of a former South Carolina governor reveal the struggles Southerners faced after the Civil War.”
Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Casa Biamca Plantation Sc, loc:Georgetown County Sc, loc:South Carolina, loc:White House Plantation Sc, pd:1922, su:daily life, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory
