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The Wedding at the Parker House”Notes of black regiments at Punta Rassa, ca. 1865: The 2d and 99th U.S. Colored Infantry and 2d Florida (U.S.) Cavalry. Describes Fort Myers, the…
Civil War on the Kansas-Missouri Border: The Narrative of Former Slave Andrew Williams“1861-1863. Liberated from his master in Missouri by Union soldiers, Williams and his family moved to Fort Scott, then Lawrence, Kansas (where he…
"Its Good to be Religious:" A Loyal Slave of God, Masters and the Civil War
The Freedmen of Port Royal“March 25 to May 10, 1862. Port Royal and Beaufort area. South Carolina. A Northern visitor describes the efforts to educate former slaves from the…
South after Gettysburg: Letters of Cornelia Hancock from the Army of the Potomac, 1863-1865“Cornelia Hancock served in the Federal hospitals, and her book is largely concerned with details of hospital life. She makes very few comments on the…
Yazoo: or, On the Picket Line of Freedom in the South. A Personal Narrative“Just after the end of the war in Mississippi, this work gives a clear view of the defeated South and the conditions on the home front in 1865.”
We Are Truly Doing Missionary Work: Letters from American Missionary Association Teachers in Florida, 1864-1874
War, Politics, and Reconstruction: Stormy Days in Louisiana“An autobiographical account by a key leader during the Reconstruction period in Louisiana.”
Up the St. John's River“On the Union occupation of Jacksonville, March 1863.”