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On Sherman's Track: Or, The South After 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…
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.”
Letters and diary of Laura M. Towne“Yankee teacher in the South.”
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.”
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."
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…
Freedom: Wartime Genesis: Lower South
Evablina -- Last of the Old Virinia Slaves“General. A remembrance of a loyal family servant.”
English Views of the Civil War: A Unique Excursion to Virginia, April 2-8, 1865“April 2-8, 1865. An unauthorized trip through the Federal blockade up the James River by a party of Englishmen. Moseley, an accountant from London,…