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From the 'Eastern Shore' of Virgina"1861. Eastern shore of Virginia. A native of the region east of Chesapeake Bay declares “This entire country... was intensely Southern in sentiment.”
From Paraclifta to Marks' Mill: The Civil War Correspondence of Lieutenant Robert C. Gilliam
From Gloom to Glory“Late 1864. Middle Tennessee. A former Confederate chaplain offers a story about the joys of going from “rags and tatters” as Confederate paper is…
From Flag to Flag: A Woman's Adventures and Experiences in the South During the War, in Mexico, and in Cuba“Mrs. Ripley and her husband lived on a Mississippi River plantation four miles below Baton Rouge, Louisiana. After the fall of New Orleans and the…
From Cape Cod to Dixie and the Tropics
From a New England Woman's Diary in Dixie in 1865"May-July 1865. Privately printed. Author's diary describing her teaching experiences on Edisto Island, near Charleston, SC."
Freedom: Wartime Genesis: Lower South
Four years in Secessia: A Narrative of a Residence at the South Previous to and During the Southern Rebellion, up to November 1863“This pamphlet is an attack on the South and it’s kind of civilization, as seen by a native of New York who went from Cincinnati to Yazoo City, MS, in…
Four Years in Rebel Capitals: An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy, From Birth to Death“1861-1865. De Leon spent most of the war years in Richmond, but his travels and comments warrant consideration. When the secession movement began De…
Forty years at El Paso, 1858-1898.“A Unionist recalls Civil War El Paso. 2nd edition.”