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Recollections of the Civil War
“1861-1865. Central and western Missouri. A young teenager from the western border of Missouri recalls the war in that region and how the conflict totally engulfed him and his neighbors.”
Southern Silhouettes
“Sketches of life on Louisiana and Mississippi plantations during the war.”
Bread Upon the Waters
“1863 or 1864. “Valley of Virginia.” Description of wartime meal at the home of paroled Confederate officer for Union invaders.”
Rumbling of the Chariot Wheels
“An account of the Civil War-era "doings and misdoing in the barefooted period of a boy's life on a southern plantation" in the South Carolina Sea Islands.”
A Girl in the Sixties in Richmond
“1861-1865. Richmond. Virginia Lite in the Confederate capital in the memory of a young woman.”
A Virginia Boy in the Sixties
“1861-1865. Mechanicsville, Virginia. A wartime youngster describes the toilsome years on the eastern edge of Richmond.”
Boyhood Impressions of the Lexington Missouri, Area, 1858-1863
“Born in 1845, this young observer moved to Lafayette County from Virginia in 1858 and recalled life in west-central Missouri until his family moved to Illinois in 1863.”