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Recollections Grave and Gay
“Burton Harrison was private secretary to Jeff Davis. This work describes social life in CSA, especially in Richmond; also includes opinions on Confederate leaders.”
Yazoo: or, On the Picket Line of Freedom in the South. A Personal Narrative
“Just after the end of the war in Mississippi, this work gives a clear view of the defeated South and the conditions on the home front in 1865.”
Testimony of Margaret Ketcham Ward on Civil War Times in Georgia, Part II
“The statements made by a Birmingham hotel owner's wife before a U.S. Senate Committee in 1883 about the war years in Georgia—including very keen observations on her servants.”
Testimony of Margaret Ketcham Ward on Civil War Times in Georgia, Part I
“The statements made by a Birmingham hotel owner's wife before a U.S. Senate Committee in 1883 about the war years in Georgia—including very keen observations on her servants.”
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.”
Memories of 1865-1871
Civil War and Reconstruction.
The Last Year of the War in North Carolina, Including Plymouth, Fort Fisher and Bentonsville. An Address Before the Association Army of Northern Virginia, Delivered in the Hall of the House of Delegates, Richmond, Va., October 28, 1887
“A brief recollection of eastern North Carolina.”
Recollections of Slavery Times
A man that was formerly enslaved tells his story about being enslaved in North Carolina