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Recollections of My Plantation Teachers

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc: James City County VA, loc:Green Spring Plantation VA, loc:Virginia, loc:Williamsburg VA, pd:1917, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:education, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Texas Memoirs of Amelia E. Barr

“1857-1867. Austin, Texas. This item is a truly delightful account of the Texas years of the prolific late-nineteenth-century novelist in Austin. By her daughter Lillie Barr Munroe, and includes some very informative views of the war years in the…

Tags: au:female, era:1860s, era:Civil War, loc:Austin TX, loc:Texas, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, ts:memory

A Daughter of the Confederacy: A Story of the Old South and the New

“Southern life in the South during the War.”

A Letter from Bleak Hall, 1861

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Bleak Hall Plantation SC, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1961, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Reminiscences of the Civil War, 1861-1865

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1909, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

Reminiscences and Anecdotes of the North Carolina Bar

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Chapel Hill NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1895, su:education, su:homefront, su:political, su:southern, ts:biography, ts:narrative

The Muchly Married Miss Mary Boozer

“1861-1865. Columbia, South Carolina. A recollection of a somewhat legendary young woman, who seemed to be “always on the street at the time the students were released from their classes.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Columbia SC, pd:1921, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, su:travel, ts:narrative

Our Faithful Slaves of Old

"1861-1865. General. Memories of loyal slaves during the war."

Tags: au:southern, era:1860s, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Fort Pickens, milt:thirty-seventh Mississippi regiment, pd:1901, su:enslaved, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

Life in Civil War East Texas

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Texas, su:daily life, su:economics, su:homefront, su:local history, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Letters From Nashville, 1862: "Dear Master"

“1862. The Military Governor of Tennessee (Andrew Johnson) arrested General William Giles Harding as a political prisoner. During his six-month incarceration, his plantation, "Belle Meade," was managed by his wife, Elizabeth. These letters indicate…

Tags: au:female, au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Belle Meade Plantation Tn, loc:Fort Mackinac Island MI, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1974, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:prison, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

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