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Life in the Confederate Army, Being the Observations and Experiences on an Alien in the
South During the American Civil War
“First, American edition. Watson, a Scotsman, emigrated to America a few years before the war and established a small business in Baton Rouge. Although a British subject, he enlisted in the Confederate Army on the outbreak of war.”
Letters and diary of Laura M. Towne
“Yankee teacher in the South.”
Led On! Step by Step: Scenes from Clerical, Military, Educational, and Plantation Life in the South, 1828-1898
“Autobiography of the founder of Holy Communion Church Institute, later known as Porter Academy.”
Life of Jefferson Davis, With a Secret History of the Southern Confederacy, gathered "behind the scenes in Richmond."
“An avid secessionist, he held Davis and the government in Richmond responsible for losing the war.”
Letters From Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War.
“The New England schoolmarms and reformers who came to the South to aid the freedmen at Port Royal, SC described their experiences in the Sea Islands during the Civil War era”.
Lifetime Recollections: An Interesting Narrative of Life in the Southern States Before and During the Civil War, with Incidents of the Bombardment of Atlanta by the Union Forces, the Author Being then a Resident of that City
“Life in Southern states before and during the War, incidents in the bombardment of Atlanta, GA.”
Life on the Old Plantation
1865. Georgia. A warm recollection of plantation days and the change brought by the war, and especially the kindness of “Uncle Wilkes.”