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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.”
"Our Women in the War:" The Lives They Lived, the Deaths They Died. From the weekly News ad Courier, Charleston, S.C.
“Recollections of the wartime years in the great South Carolina port city.”
“Beauty and Booty:” The Watchword of New Orleans
“New Orleans during the war, occupation, and atrocities.”
A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War
“1861-1865. Near Eufaula, Alabama. Recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during a blockade imposed on the South, life on a plantation.”
A Book of Memories, 1842-1920
“CSA and Alabama material.”
A Boy and His Flag
“1861. Virginia. A young man in 1861 recalls his first Confederate flag and later coming back to Virginia from Baltimore and meeting confederate leaders north of Richmond.”
A Boy of the Old Dominion During the War Between the States
“1861-1865. Alexandria, Virginia. The memories of a youngster living in the busy city on the south bank of the Potomac—across from Washington, D.C.”
A Boy's Impressions of the Battle of Franklin
"November 1864. Franklin, Tennessee. The battle in Middle Tennessee as seen by a youngster.”