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Plantation Life in the Sixties“1861-1865. Western North Carolina. A young wife shares her memories of the war years in “the valley of the Tucakaseega River.” In Jackson County,…
“Summer of 1864. Lynchburg, Virginia. A determined lady’s experiences during a Union attack on her home and Lynchburg.”
Social Life in Old New Orleans, Being Recollections of my Girlhood“Social life, plantation, New Orleans during War.”
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…
News From the Front
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The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865"December 19, 1864—August 2, 1865. Andrews traveled over a broken railroad system and in wagons from Washington to a plantation near Albany, across…
Elisha Baxter's Autobiography
A Report on Civil War America: Sir James Fergusson's Five-Week Visit“September 17-October 23, 1861. Letter. Conservative member of the British Parliament. Traveled in both the North and South and visited the major…
Vicksburg And After: Being the Experience of a Southern Merchant and Non-Combatant during the Sixties