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Our Southern Women in the War Times
“1861-1865. General. The wife of President Davis recalls that “the women of the South did not shrink from the prospect of great and painful economics.”
On the Plantation: A Story of a Georgia Boy's Adventures During the War
“First published in 1892, ON THE PLANTATION is the most autobiographical of Harris's works and includes extensive examples of his renderings of the African American Geechee dialect.”
OLD CANOOCHEE—OGEECHEE CHRONICLES: War Time and After
“Recollections of Savannah during the war.”
Old Plantation days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War
“Actually misleading, for it contains much on the war, Sherman's March through Georgia and South Carolina, also includes beginning of conflict at Charleston.”
Plantation Life Before the War
“1861-1865. Hinds County, Mississippi. A general memory of the style and grace of the South.”
Princess of Glendale: A Story of the South
“War, slavery, and politics.”
Recollection and Reflections
“1861-1865. Tuskegee, Alabama. A young man’s remembrance of the war years, his fathers’ close friend William L. Yancey, Union raids under General Wilson in 1865, and “the reign of’ Reconstruction.”
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 Civil War By J. W. Frederick
“1861-1865. Ten years old when the war began, this observer recalls the patriotic zeal that prompted the principal of his school, the Marshallville Academy (Georgia), to raise a company, recruit most of the older boys, and march off to Virginia.…