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"My Dear Husband": A Texas Slave's Love Letter, 1862
December 28, 1862. Expressions of worry about and love for her husband Norfleet, a bondsman to enslaver Theophilus Perry (28th Texas Cavalry), who had gone into military service as Perry’s "personal servant.”
A Confederate Nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot
“Ada W. Bacot's diary of her experiences as a nurse in the South Carolina hospital for Confederate soldiers in Charlottesville, Virginia provides a rare record of Confederate hospital life as perceived by a lady volunteer. Bacot, a young widow, did…
A Memoir of the Thomson Family
Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc: Fort Motte SC, loc:Calhoun County SC, loc:Columbia SC, loc:Midway Plantation SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1961, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory
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 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 Tennessean, and describe opinions in the region.”
A Virginian's Diary in Civil War Days
“August 17 to December 31, 1862. Kinloch Plantation Fauquier County, Virginia. This article is almost entirely composed of entries from the diary of a plantation owner, Edward Carter Turner, Unionist who described the ravages of the war in Northern…
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 War.”
Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Casa Biamca Plantation Sc, loc:Georgetown County Sc, loc:South Carolina, loc:White House Plantation Sc, pd:1922, su:daily life, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory
Adventures of a Fair Rebel
“Author from Louisiana lived in Georgia contributed to magazines, etc.”