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The Whip, Hoe, and Sword; or, The Gulf-Department in '63
“A good account of life in the lower Mississippi River Valley in 1863 by a visitor from the North— particularly useful for observations of Creoles, the enslaved, and plantations.”
Sixty-One Years of Itinerant Christian Life in Church and State
“Pearne born in 1820, became a Methodist minister, traveled on a mule from Michigan to Oregon, was in the Civil War, worked in the South, etc. A fascinating account.”
Seventy Years of an Active Life
“Printed for private circulation. Sterne was an Englishman who first came to Texas in 1852. He helped survey the first proposed rail line in Texas and had many adventures with Ben McCulloch in 1856- 1857. During the Civil War, he served as a Union…
Some Neglected Aspects of the American Civil War: Recollections of John C. Wade
“1861- 1862. Yorktown, Virginia. Recollections of activities on the Peninsula, by an observer who was a boy of twelve years at the time recorded in 1934.”