“The delicately emotional reminiscences of Mrs. George E. Pickett, with a brief portion on the ante-bellum years, much on the Civil War in VA as it seemed to a Confederate hero’s wife and then the sadness of defeat and reconstruction.”
“June-August 1861. Southwest Missouri. A resident of Lincoln County, Missouri summarizes the events relating to the important battle in southwest Missouri.”
“1861-1865. Liberty County and Andersonville. Georgia. A wartime lad remembers the beginning of the war on the plantation near Savannah, the coming of Sherman’s invaders, the family's flight to the west, and finally, their “return to our abandoned…
“April 1865. Richmond, Virginia. A South Carolina soldier describes the “deafening, roaring flames of the burning city,” as the confederate capital was abandoned to Yankee invaders.”