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Cullings from the Confederacy: A Collection of Southern Poems, Original and Others, Popular During the War Between the States, and Incidents and Facts Worth Recalling. 1862-1866: Including the Doggerel of the Camp, as well as a Tender Tribute to the Dead
“1862-1866. Discusses women's efforts and attitudes; prices and shortages-a wide variety of brief items.”
Daring Molly Tynes
“July 1863. Near Tazewell, Virginia. A recollection of a daring riot by an “eighteen-year-old courier. . . beautiful of form and face” who rode to Wytheville, Virginia to warn the residents of a Yankee advance.”
Defeat in Victory: Yankee Experience in Early Civil War Jacksonville
“March-April 1862. Diaries. Keene was a Northerner who had recently come to Florida to operate a hotel. He joined a local militia unit at the start of the secession crisis but resigned when it entered state service. In Jacksonville, where Union and…
Deterioration of a Georgia Rice Plantation During Four Years of Civil War
“May 1861-June 30, 1865. Near Savannah, Georgia. Diary of a member of a famed Charleston Huguenot family records effects of war on a rice plantation a few miles upriver from Savannah.”
Devotion of Southern Women to the Confederacy
“1861-1865. North and South Carolina. A confederate veteran offers praise to the “noble, patriots, and loyal women” of the south and describes some of the work.”
Diary of John Berkley Grimball 1858-1865, Part 1
“April 1, 1858 - June 17, 1865. Charleston and Vicinity. Business, plantation, and military affairs near Charleston and described by a proud plantation owner who was among the most prominent citizens of the Low Country.”