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First Days Amongst the Contrabands“Excellent summary of the conditions near Port Royal and Beaufort, SC in Civil War, where Miss Botume worked for the Freedmen's Aid Society—her work…
From a New England Woman's Diary in Dixie in 1865"May-July 1865. Privately printed. Author's diary describing her teaching experiences on Edisto Island, near Charleston, SC."
Letters from Little Rock of Captain James M. Bowler, 112th United States Colored Troops“The letters of a Union captain to his wife and mother written during his stay in the area around Little Rock, from July to December 1864.”
Letters and diary of Laura M. Towne“Yankee teacher in the South.”
Memoir of Rev. Samuel B. McPheeters“Although the work of a Presbyterian minister in St. Louis, this is a valuable insight into the difficulties of life in Border State during the War.”
My Return from Dixie“April-May-1865. Macon, Mississippi; Memphis to Louisville, to Gallatin, Tennessee. The wife of a former Confederate officer remembers her return home…
On Sherman's Track: Or, The South After the War
Ruin and Reconstruction of Southern States
Reconstruction in Yazoo County
Recollections of Slavery TimesA man that was formerly enslaved tells his story about being enslaved in North Carolina