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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.”
Testimony of Margaret Ketcham Ward on Civil War Times in Georgia, Part II“The statements made by a Birmingham hotel owner's wife before a U.S. Senate Committee in 1883 about the war years in Georgia—including very keen…
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…
Recollections of Slavery TimesA man that was formerly enslaved tells his story about being enslaved in North Carolina
A Yankee in Louisiana: Selections from the Diary and Correspondence of Henry R. Gardner, 1862-1866
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…
The Story of My Life and Work
Village Life in America, 1852-1872 including the period of the American civil war as told in the diary of a schoolgirl
Evablina -- Last of the Old Virinia Slaves“General. A remembrance of a loyal family servant.”