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The Confederate Treasury
“April-May 1865. Richmond to Georgia. A brief account of the fate of Confederate gold and paper reserved on the flight from Virginia.”
Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:undesignated conflict, loc:Georgia, loc:Greensboro NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Washington County GA, milt:Company F Mississippi Cavalry, milt:Ferguson's Brigade, pd:1930, su:confederate, su:economics, su:military, su:war experience, ts:memory
Life in the South: From the Commencement of the War. Vol 2
“Miss Catherine Cooper Hopley was an English schoolteacher who had been living with relatives in Indiana a few years before going South to teach in 1860. She was a cultured, middle-class woman, a close observer who also read newspapers and kept…
Life in the South: From the Commencement of the War. Vol 1
“Miss Catherine Cooper Hopley was an English schoolteacher who had been living with relatives in Indiana a few years before going South to teach in 1860. She was a cultured, middle-class woman, a close observer who also read newspapers and kept…
Illium in Flames
“February-March 1865. Columbia, South Carolina. A collection of descriptions of the destruction of the South Carolina capital.”
Civil War Letters of George W. Allen
“July 24 - November 30, 1862. Arkansas. A Texas farm boy describes life near his Confederate Army post in central Arkansas in three letters.”
Tags: 10th Texas Infantry, 35th texas Cavalry, au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Austin Ar, loc:Texas, milt:23rd Brigade Washington County Dixie Blues, milt:Company A 10th Texas Infantry, milt:Company B Brown's Battalion 35th Texas Cavalry, milt:Dixie Blues Washington County, pd:1979, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:prison, ts:correspondence
Sketches of the war: a series of letters to the North Moore Street School of New York.
“Although these letters were addressed to school children, they give a close-up view of the country and inhabitants of northwestern Tennessee and western Kentucky. Nott, a resident of New York City at the outbreak of the Civil War, went to St. Louis…
The Hidden Way to Dixie
"1863. Washington, D.C. to Richmond, Virginia. A New York businessman’s account of his trip to CSA."
Occurrences at Lee's Surender
“April 1865. Appomattox Court House, Virginia. An eyewitness remembers many of the details of the historic surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia.”