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A Letter of Captain V. Chamberlain 7th Connecticut Volunteers“Hilton Head, South Carolina, and Jacksonville, Florida. A Union Officer describes two occupied towns.”
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…
A Letter from Occupied Tallahassee
A Letter from Dardanelle to Jonesville, South Carolina
A Letter from Bleak Hall, 1861
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 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…
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 Glimpse at Occupied New Orleans: The Diary of Thomas H. Duval of Texas, 1863-1865
A Girl's Recollections of War“1863? Pulaski County, Virginia. “A schoolgirl during the War” remembers poignant events on the home front.”