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Letters From Nashville, 1862: "Dear Master"
“1862. The Military Governor of Tennessee (Andrew Johnson) arrested General William Giles Harding as a political prisoner. During his six-month incarceration, his plantation, "Belle Meade," was managed by his wife, Elizabeth. These letters indicate…
Letters From Nashville, 1862: A Portrait of Belle Meade
“1862. The Military Governor of Tennessee (Andrew Johnson) arrested General William Giles Harding as a political prisoner. During his six-month incarceration, his plantation, "Belle Meade," was managed by his wife, Elizabeth. These letters indicate…
Memoirs of W. W. Holden.
“Politics, little of battlefront; recollections of former Governor of North Carolina.”
Memories of 1865-1871
Civil War and Reconstruction.
Missouri After the War
“1865. Missouri. A personal summary of the strongly divided sentiments in the Border State - just after the end of battlefield conflicts.”
My Old Black Mammy
“1861-1865. General. A Confederate recalled “the character and virtues of the Negroes before and during the war.”
Memorials of a Southern Planter
“Wartime portion of this fine recollection of Thomas Dabney and his family; Union occupation in Mississippi, refugee life in Macon, Georgia, and the sad but genteel poverty of a proud man after the war.”
My Diary North and South
“William Howard Russell in March 1861 arrived in the United States as a special correspondent for the London Times. Landing in New York, he entered the South in April and traveled by train to the Alabama River and then to Mobile, Pensacola, and Fort…