Browse Items (125 total)
Sort by:
Recollections of Slavery Times
A man that was formerly enslaved tells his story about being enslaved in North Carolina
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.…
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.”
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.”
Princess of Glendale: A Story of the South
“War, slavery, and politics.”
Plantation Life Before the War
“1861-1865. Hinds County, Mississippi. A general memory of the style and grace of the South.”