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Fall of Richmond
Southern Silhouettes“Sketches of life on Louisiana and Mississippi plantations during the war.”
Judith W. McGuire: "A Lady of Virginia"
War Times in Natchez“1861-1865. Natchez, Mississippi. A lady recalls the years of the conflict in "Grand, exclusive, heroic Natchez.”
The Wedding at the Parker House”Notes of black regiments at Punta Rassa, ca. 1865: The 2d and 99th U.S. Colored Infantry and 2d Florida (U.S.) Cavalry. Describes Fort Myers, the…
Civil War on the Kansas-Missouri Border: The Narrative of Former Slave Andrew Williams“1861-1863. Liberated from his master in Missouri by Union soldiers, Williams and his family moved to Fort Scott, then Lawrence, Kansas (where he…
Post Civil War Mobile: The Letters of James M. Williams, May-September, 1865
A Missouri Boy’s Experiences“1863. Missouri and Virginia. A young soldier recalls events in his home state in the middle of the war and then describes his trip home after being…
One Year of the War; Civil War Diary of John Withers, Assistant Adjutant-General, of the Confederate Army
The American Civil War: An English View, Part 1“October-November, 1862. A British Army officer who traveled to Virginia and was secreted into the Confederacy across the Potomac. In one section of…