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Kate: The Journal of a Confederate Nurse
“1862-1865. Cumming served as a hospital matron in Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, providing personal services and comfort for the wounded, and supervised the food and cleanliness of the hospitals. She exhorted women to serve in…
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.”
Listen to the Mockingbird: The Life and Times of a Pioneer Virginia Family
“Family life during civil war and reconstruction. John Howe Capt., Co. E., 4th VA.”
Memoirs of W. W. Holden.
“Politics, little of battlefront; recollections of former Governor of North Carolina.”
My Cave Life in Vicksburg.: With Letters of Trial and Travel
"A valuable story of a gentlewoman's experiences under siege at Vicksburg."—Civil War Books. Most revealing for the trials endured by the inhabitants of the besieged city, told by the wife of CSA colonel, in her own words which need no…
My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as a Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps, and at the Front During the War of the Rebellion.
“Hospital scenes and work at the Sanitary Fairs captivated this war observer. Mrs. Livermore's activities were confined almost entirely to Chicago, Washington, and border towns. She made one trip down the Mississippi River and she gives some account…