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“Fall of 1862. North Garden Station, Virginia. A wounded Confederate soldier remembers kind assistance by residents near an improvised temporary field hospital.”

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“1862-1863. Near Richmond, Virginia. These memoirs, written in 1911 by a plantation wife describe life in the Peninsula-while Yankee troops were invading-and mention Union balloon observers.”

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“Much Texas, Arkansas, especially valuable for Unionists in Arkansas and life near Fayetteville and Elk Horn Tavern, Arkansas.”

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“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…

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“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…

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“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…
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