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A Poor Widow Asks for Food: 1865
“May 8, 1865. A Baldwin County, Georgia woman wrote this letter to Union Major General James H. Wilson, revealing the lingering desolation caused by Sherman's march across Georgia.”
A Confederate Girl's Diary
"March 9, 1862 - May 2, 1865. One of the best Confederate diaries, written by a Baton Rouge girl, who was a fervent Confederate. In 1863, she moved to the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain and later into New Orleans. Dawson was initially ambivalent…
Civil War Experiences of Sarah J. Yeater, Written in 1909 and 1910 for my Three
Granddaughters, Frances, and Christine Yeater and Jeanette Brookmeyer
“Southern sympathies forced to flee south in Arkansas and Texas.”
