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Whitaker’s Reminiscences, Incidents and Anecdotes; Recollections of Other Days and years, or, What I Saw and heard, and Thought of People Whom I Knew, and What They Did and Said
“Wake County journalist candidly recalls events in North Carolina.”
The Evolution of a State, or Recollections of Old Texas Days
“J. Frank Dobie described this account as the "best of all books dealing with life in early Texas Bully reading." This reminiscence by a key Texas pioneer summarizes the decades from the early settlements by U.S. immigrants in Texas until he left the…
The Crittenden Memoirs.
“Bushwhackers, the war in Missouri and Kansas.”
The Civil War in Chowan County, North Carolina
“1861-1865. Chowan County, North Carolina. This brief account by a doctor whose estate was Union headquarters in the area for two years describes the naval battles in Albemarle Sound, cavalry raids, and the difficulties which he and his neighbors in…
The Cradle of the Confederacy; or, The Times of Troup, Quitman, and Yancey. A Sketch of Southwestern Political History from the Formation of the Federal Government to A.D. 1861.
“Montgomery attorney describes events of secession and first months of the war. Maintains that Northern leaders drove the SW states to secession. Between 1850-1860.”
