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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…

Key West in the Summer of 1864

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Tags: era:1864, loc:Florida, loc:Key West FL, su:medical, ts:correspondence

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 and determination.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1863, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Lauderdale Springs MS, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, pd:1894, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:medical, su:political, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

Letter from a Virginia Lady to the Federal Commander at Winchester, Va.

“1863-1864. Clarke County, Virginia. A contemporary letter describes life in the Shenandoah Valley in the midst of Yankee raids.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, loc:Clarke County VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1880, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

LETTER FROM AN EYEWITNESS AT ANDERSONVILLE PRISON, 1864

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, he:Andersonville Prison, loc:Andersonville Ga, loc:Georgia, milt:Provisional Army of the Confederate States, pd:1954, su:Andersonville Prison, su:confederate, su:medical, su:military, su:prison, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Letters from Little Rock of Captain James M. Bowler, 112th United States Colored Troops

“The letters of a Union captain to his wife and mother written during his stay in the area around Little Rock, from July to December 1864.”

Tags: au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Little Rock AR, milt:112th United States Colored Troops, pd:1981, su:African American, su:camp life, su:Freedmen, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Letters in War-Time

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Gettysburg, loc:Gettsburg PA, loc:Pennsylvania, pd:1874, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, ts:correspondence

LETTERS OF A CONFEDERATE SURGEON: DR. ABNER EMBRY McGARITY, 1862-1865. PART I

Tags: era:1862, era:1863, era:1864, era:1865, loc:Atlanta GA, loc:Georgia, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, su:camp hospital, su:camp life, su:medical, ts:correspondence, ts:diary

LETTERS OF A CONFEDERATE SURGEON: DR. ABNER EMBRY McGARITY, 1862-1865. Part III

Tags: era:1864, loc:Virginia, su:camp hospital, su:medical, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence, ts:diary

Letters of John Letcher to J. Hierholzer, 1864-1865

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“November 3, 1864-May 16, 1865. Lexington, Virginia. The former governor of Virginia described the effects of the war in the valley and his own opinions of the combat, in three letters to a merchant in Richmond.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Lexington VA, su:civilian, su:occupation, su:political, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

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