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A Letter of Captain V. Chamberlain 7th Connecticut Volunteers
“Hilton Head, South Carolina, and Jacksonville, Florida. A Union Officer describes two occupied towns.”
A Daughter of the Confederacy: A Story of the Old South and the New
“Southern life in the South during the War.”
A Balcony in Charleston
“Letters of life and times of Caroline Howard Gilman, experiences of a "Confederate Mother", during Civil War, to her sister in the North and to her daughter, the wife of James Russell Lowell.”
A Southern Girl's Diary
“February 10-June 26, 1865. Orangeburg, South Carolina. A girl’s diary records the coming of the Yankee and how the “desecrated. . . Orangeburg,” the “dreadful day” of occupation, the news of a brother’s death, and with defeat—“the gloomy prospect…
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.”