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The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865

"December 19, 1864—August 2, 1865. Andrews traveled over a broken railroad system and in wagons from Washington to a plantation near Albany, across the route of Sherman's march across Georgia. On the trains, she listened to a Confederate soldier…

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The University of North Carolina in the Civil War: An Address Delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the Opening of the Institution, June 5th, 1895

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The University of North Carolina

"1861-1865. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. A personal reflection of events in Chapel Hill and at UNC during the war."

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Chapel Hill NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1930, su:civilian, su:education, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

The Trials of our Women in the War

“October 1862, August 1863. Missouri. Recollections of home font woes of Confederates in Missouri.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:narrative

The Tennessee Valley from 1862 to 1865

“1862-1865. North Alabama. A brief summary of war years in the counties near the Tennessee River in north Alabama.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:1863, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:fayette county, loc:Georgia, pd:1893, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

The Story of Sixty Years

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Mississippi, pd:1902, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:medical, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:seccession, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory, ts:narrative

The Story of my Life: or More than a Half-Century as I Have Lived it and Seen it Lived

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Tennessee, pd:1912, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:political, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

The Story of My Life and Work

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, su:African American, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, ts:autobiography

The Southern Women of the Second American Revolution: Their Trials, &c. Yankee Barbarity Illustrated. Our Naval Victories and Exploits of Confederate War Steamers. Capture of Yankee gunboats, &c.

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Galveston NC, loc:North Carolina, milt:Naval, pd:1863, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

The Southern Diary of William John Grayson, Part 2

"May 10-November 18, 1862. This elderly Charleston political and literary figure was an ardent defender of slavery, but suspicious of the motives of those who favored secession. He opposed all who made war. The important events of the period—Shiloh,…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:South Carolina, pd:1962, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:political, su:seccession, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

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