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From Gloom to Glory“Late 1864. Middle Tennessee. A former Confederate chaplain offers a story about the joys of going from “rags and tatters” as Confederate paper is…
In Winter Quarters of Dalton, Ga“1863. North Georgia. The strain of winter without adequate supplies and religion in the ranks.”
Last Days of the Confederacy: Letters from Jefferson Davis During that Period“1863-1865. General. A close associate of the Confederate president who was chaplain of the 49lh Miss. Regt. Proudly remembers his leader’s courage…
Rev. James H. McNeilly, D.D.
Reconstrcution in Tennessee“October-December 1865. Tennessee. A former Confederate chaplain encounters Reconstruction his Presbyterian ministry.”
Religion and Reconstruction“1865. Kentucky and Nashville. A former Confederate chaplain comments upon the first months of Union dominance in the defeated South.”
Recuperating in the Far South“1863. Mobile and Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A wounded soldier goes “home” to recuperate and enjoy emotional support “by my old friends.”
Religion in the Confederate Armies
Surrender and Homeward Bound“1865. Mobile to New Orleans to Louisville. A former CSA soldier recalls the last weeks of the war and his return home to Kentucky.”
English Views of the Civil War: A Unique Excursion to Virginia, April 2-8, 1865“April 2-8, 1865. An unauthorized trip through the Federal blockade up the James River by a party of Englishmen. Moseley, an accountant from London,…