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FANNY COHEN'S JOURNAL OF SHERMAN'S OCCUPATION OF SAVANNAH
Echoes from the Battlefield; Or, Southern Life During the War“Impersonal account of life for a Georgia family during the war, by an M.D. living near Atlanta.”
Columbia—As Seen by a Rebel Scouting Party the Day After Sherman’s Evacuation
BURNING OF COLUMBIA
A Yankee Views the Agony of Savannah“A Union soldier describes occupied Savannah.”
“January 29, 1865. A recent arrival from Boston wrote home about the devastation of Savannah and…
Airy Mount -- In Sherman's Track“November 1894-January 1865. Near Oxford, Georgia. A recollection of the sad realities of Sherman’s march through the area of a proud plantation…
A Georgia Woman's Civil War Diary: The Journal of Minerva Leah Rowles McClatchey, 1864-1865“January 1864-September 1865. When Sherman's troops entered Georgia, Mr. McClatchey left the family farm near Marietta, GA. Mrs. McClatchey, however,…
A CONFEDERATE OFFICER'S LETTERS ON SHERMAN'S MARCH TO ATLANTA
A CIVIL WAR LETTER ON THE CAPTURE OF ATLANTA
A Southern Woman's Bravery“1863. Vicksburg to Brandon, Mississippi. A confederate veteran recalls how a brave woman—assisted by a Union captain from Wisconsin—save her family’s…