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Last Scenes of War: How I Got Home“April-May 1863. Richmond to North Georgia. A former private recalls the weeks from the fall of Richmond until he reached his home in Georgia after a…
Random Recollections of an Octogenarian
Recollections of John Safford Stoney, Confederate Surgeon
Letters of John Letcher to J. Hierholzer, 1864-1865“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…
The Women of the Confederacy, in Which is Presented the Heroism of the Women of the Confederacy with Accounts of their Trials During the War and the Period of Reconstruction, with Their Ultimate Triumph over Adversity. Their Motives and Achievements as Told by Writers and Orators Now Preserved in Permanent Form“Collection of sentimental sketches describing the devotion of Southern women to the Confederate cause. Includes more than 160 articles, culled from a…
The Soldier’s Friend; Being a Thrilling Narrative of Grandma Smith's Four Years Experience and Observation, as Matron, in the Hospitals of the South, During the late Disastrous conflict in America“This book was published to show the horrors of war and to discourage any repetition. Nevertheless, it is more concerned with traveling from one…
Reminiscences, Giving Sketches of Scenes Through Which the Author has Passed and Pen Pictures of People who have Modified his Life
Observations on Affairs in the South in the Spring of 1865 (as Given in a Letter to His Wife)
Memorials of Academic Life, Being a Historical Sketch of the Waddel Family, Identified Through Three Generations with the History of Higher Education in South and Southwest“Dr. Moses Waddel was President of the University of Georgia. Includes a sketch. Also, an autobiography of John N. Waddel and material on wartime…
The White Castle of Louisiana