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“Beauty and Booty:” The Watchword of New Orleans“New Orleans during the war, occupation, and atrocities.”
A Yankee in Louisiana: Selections from the Diary and Correspondence of Henry R. Gardner, 1862-1866
AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Of Judge Nicholas Sandifer
Autobiography of James L. Smith: Including also, Reminiscences of Slave Life, Recollections of the War, Education of Freedmen, Causes of the Exodus, etc.“A description of the war by a slave driven from the Memphis area to Alabama and Mississippi.”
A Southerner Views the South, 1865: Letters of Harvey M. Watterson“June 7-July 8, 1865. North Carolina and Richmond, Virginia. This observer was sent to the defeated south to report to Andrew Johnson, a fellow…
A Journey Among the Contrabands: The Diary of Walter Totten Carpenter“January 1-March 24, 1864. Sent by the Indiana Quakers to Tennessee and Alabama to monitor the aid being given to the slaves who had escaped to, or…
A Yankee Soldier Looks at the Negro