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The Burning of Columbia
“February-March 1865. Columbia, South Carolina. An eyewitness account of the burning of the South Carolina capital.”
Testimony of Margaret Ketcham Ward on Civil War Times in Georgia, Part I
“The statements made by a Birmingham hotel owner's wife before a U.S. Senate Committee in 1883 about the war years in Georgia—including very keen observations on her servants.”
The Old Plantation: How We Lived in Great House and Cabin Before the War
“Plantation in Onslow County, NC. Preface by Hunter McGuire, Late Surgeon-General, for Stonewall Jackson.”
The Old South in Peace and War--Confiscation of Plantation
“1861-1863. Mississippi. A former resident of the Vicksburg area criticizes the high-handed manner in which Union Authority “acquired” Southern property.”
The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865
"December 19, 1864—August 2, 1865. Andrews traveled over a broken railroad system and in wagons from Washington to a plantation near Albany, across the route of Sherman's march across Georgia. On the trains, she listened to a Confederate soldier…
