Some Reactions of Union Soldiers Stationed in the South during the Civil War
Some Recollections of George Caleb Bingham
“1861-1865. Missouri. General memories of the great Missouri artist, including his wartime activities.”
Some Reminiscences of the Second of April 1865
“April 2, 1865. Richmond, Virginia. Recollections of Richmond on the day when CSA leaders decided to leave the city.”
“The author saw Jacksonville in flames in March 1864; he returned in 1878 to visit members of his former black regiment.”
South after Gettysburg: Letters of Cornelia Hancock from the Army of the Potomac, 1863-1865
“Cornelia Hancock served in the Federal hospitals, and her book is largely concerned with details of hospital life. She makes very few comments on the country or the people of the Confederacy. She was certain that Virginia could not compare with her native New Jersey. 1863-1868. a young Quaker who served as a nurse at Gettysburg and in a Washington "contraband hospital," the II Corps Hospital at Brandy Station, and in-field hospitals during the Wilderness and Petersburg campaigns. She provides descriptions of hospital tent suffering, duties, and relates her frustration over the government's unwillingness to make decisions concerning the "contrabands."
“A jumble of first-hand accounts of life in South Carolina as seen by female eyes—but highly useful in recording the home front—includes contemporary letters, reminiscences, diaries, etc., from the entire state.”
Southern History of the Great Civil War in the United States