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"Its Good to be Religious:" A Loyal Slave of God, Masters and the Civil War
"My Dear Husband": A Texas Slave's Love Letter, 1862December 28, 1862. Expressions of worry about and love for her husband Norfleet, a bondsman to enslaver Theophilus Perry (28th Texas Cavalry), who…
“Beauty and Booty:” The Watchword of New Orleans“New Orleans during the war, occupation, and atrocities.”
A Diary with Reminiscences of the War and Refugee Life in the Shenandoah Valley, 1860-1865
A Journey Among the Contrabands: The Diary of Walter Totten Carpenter“January 1-March 24, 1864. Sent by the Indiana Quakers to Tennessee and Alabama to monitor the aid being given to the slaves who had escaped to, or…
A Patriotic Confederate Woman's War Diary, 1862-1863“1862-1863. From Perote, Alabama, Mrs. Crossley wrote on such topics as her slaves, conscription, and sewing for Confederate soldiers.”
A Southern Home in War Times
A Southerner Views the South, 1865: Letters of Harvey M. Watterson“June 7-July 8, 1865. North Carolina and Richmond, Virginia. This observer was sent to the defeated south to report to Andrew Johnson, a fellow…
A Virginia Girl in the First Year of the War
A Woman Rice Planter“NEW YORK SUN columns written by the bankrupt daughter of a former South Carolina governor reveal the struggles Southerners faced after the Civil…