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Reminiscences of War at the Close
“May 1865. Meridian, Mississippi. A soldier recalls the “heartrending condition of my father’s home when 1 reached it: in eastern Mississippi.”
Reminiscences of the Confederacy
“1861-1865. Nashville, Tennessee, and Richmond, Virginia. Reminiscences of the wife of a former judge recall wartime days in the Tennessee capital and the last weeks of the war as she fled from Richmond to the west.”
Religion and Reconstruction
“1865. Kentucky and Nashville. A former Confederate chaplain comments upon the first months of Union dominance in the defeated South.”
Reconstrcution in Tennessee
“October-December 1865. Tennessee. A former Confederate chaplain encounters Reconstruction his Presbyterian ministry.”
Recollections of the Evacuation of Richmond
“April 1865. Richmond, Virginia. A description of the full of the Confederate capital by a man “living on Church Hill in the city.”
One Woman in the Great War
“1864-1865. Petersburg, Virginia. A recollection of the last months of the war, just south of Richmond.”
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.”