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A Confederate Girl Visits Pennsylvania, July-September 1863, Part 2
“July 29-September 3, 1863. Letters. Relates her travel from Maryland to Pennsylvania, the city of Altoona, family affairs, and impressions of the course of the war.”
A Confederate Girl's Diary
"March 9, 1862 - May 2, 1865. One of the best Confederate diaries, written by a Baton Rouge girl, who was a fervent Confederate. In 1863, she moved to the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain and later into New Orleans. Dawson was initially ambivalent…
A Daughter of the Confederacy: A Story of the Old South and the New
“Southern life in the South during the War.”
A Flordia Story of War Times
“1861-1864. Jacksonville, Florida, and South Georgia. A lady describes the coming of the war to north Florida and her family’s efforts to escape to South Georgia.”
A Girl in the Sixties in Richmond
“1861-1865. Richmond. Virginia Lite in the Confederate capital in the memory of a young woman.”
A Great Old-Time Schoolmaster
“1861-1865. Nashville, Tennessee. A fond remembrance of the Rev. C.D. Elliott, wartime "principal of the old Nashville Female Academy.”
A Heroine of the Sixties
“1863-1865. Giles County. Virginia. An unidentified woman described a valiant young neighbor who always helped Confederates and “met every vicissitude with dauntless courage that never wavered.”
A Letter From the Archbishop of New Orleans, 1862
“February 28, 1862. Mentioned the effect of the war on religious activities. Church attendance was increasing; volunteer women's groups were being entrusted with field and military hospitals; the Union blockade was causing Odin problems as he…