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Defeat in Victory: Yankee Experience in Early Civil War Jacksonville
“March-April 1862. Diaries. Keene was a Northerner who had recently come to Florida to operate a hotel. He joined a local militia unit at the start of the secession crisis but resigned when it entered state service. In Jacksonville, where Union and…
Deterioration of a Georgia Rice Plantation During Four Years of Civil War
“May 1861-June 30, 1865. Near Savannah, Georgia. Diary of a member of a famed Charleston Huguenot family records effects of war on a rice plantation a few miles upriver from Savannah.”
Down In Louisiana, 1862
“1862. Louisiana. A Presbyterian minister remembers the heat, mosquitoes, and concern for the CSA.”
Douglas: Tender and True
“Plantation life during the war, a Southern belle in love with a soldier in Hood's Texas Brigade.”
Devotion of Southern Women to the Confederacy
“1861-1865. North and South Carolina. A confederate veteran offers praise to the “noble, patriots, and loyal women” of the south and describes some of the work.”