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Some War Scenes Revisited
“The author saw Jacksonville in flames in March 1864; he returned in 1878 to visit members of his former black regiment.”
Up the St. John's River
“On the Union occupation of Jacksonville, March 1863.”
A Letter of Captain V. Chamberlain 7th Connecticut Volunteers
“Hilton Head, South Carolina, and Jacksonville, Florida. A Union Officer describes two occupied towns.”
Two Months in the Confederate States: Including a Visit to New Orleans Under the Domination of General Butler
“This English merchant visited the Confederate States primarily to investigate the status of debts owed by Southerners to English and foreign merchants. Corsan took ship for New Orleans, where he spent a few days before making his way through the…
A Republic Within the Confederacy and Other Recollections of 1864
“A Union lieutenant from Iowa recalls events behind the lines in occupied north Alabama and Mississippi.”
The Letters of William Beverley Randolph Hackley: Treasury Agent in West Tennessee, 1863-1866
“November 22, 1863 - April 2, 1866. Memphis and La Grange, Tennessee. Nine letters from a native Virginian, who had moved to Joliet, Illinois, before being sent to Western Tennessee as an agent of the U.S. Treasury Department, to his family,…
The Journal of Sergt. Wm. J. McKell
The Journal of Sergt. Wm. J. McKell is a large number of stories written by prisoners of war describing the privations and suffering of prison life, North and South, during the Civü War. The following narrative is similar in many respects to those…