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The Iron Furnace: or, Slavery and Secession.
“A highly colored description of events in northeast Mississippi from the eve of the war through the arrest of the author for pro-Yankee statements.”
Up the St. John's River
“On the Union occupation of Jacksonville, March 1863.”
Sketches of the war: a series of letters to the North Moore Street School of New York.
“Although these letters were addressed to school children, they give a close-up view of the country and inhabitants of northwestern Tennessee and western Kentucky. Nott, a resident of New York City at the outbreak of the Civil War, went to St. Louis…
Sack and Destruction of the City of Columbia, S.C.: To Which is Added a List of the Property Destroyed
“5,000 copies issued. Originally published in the Columbia Daily Phoenix. A special edition was printed on bank-note paper, interleaved, very rare. An account of the capture of the South Carolina capital by great Southern author.”
Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation
"This book is of outstanding value as a close-up picture of the management of confiscated and abandoned plantations along the Mississippi River which were leased to Northern speculators and managers, and in detailing the ways of enslaved working on…