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My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life

“This is the reminiscence of a chatty, cultural, and proud Virginia lady, wife of a key political leader. She viewed the wartime scene with a sad reserve and looked back with fondness on antebellum tranquility. Includes material from REMINISCENCES OF…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, pd:1905, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:southern, ts:memory

Memoirs and Sketches of the Life of Henry Robinson Pollard: An Autobiography

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Virginia, pd:1923, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:biography

My Lady of the South: A Story of the Civil War

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:prison, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Memories of a Long life in Virginia

“Much on CSA, knew Lee and Jackson.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Lexington VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1920, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography

My Moving Tent

“Several chapters on CSA, minutes of Gen. Assoc., chaplains, and missionaries of Army of Tennessee.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Shelbyville Tn, loc:Tennessee, pd:1903, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

My Yesteryears: An Autobiography

“Chapters on Jeff Davis, Prisons, etc.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Missouri, loc:St. Louis MO, pd:1942, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, su:travel, ts:autobiography

Memoir of Rev. Samuel B. McPheeters

“Although the work of a Presbyterian minister in St. Louis, this is a valuable insight into the difficulties of life in Border State during the War.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:St. Louis MO, loc:Virginia, pd:1871, su:African American, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:Reconstruction, su:religion, su:slavery, ts:autobiography

Mrs. James H. McNeilly

Tags: era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Danville Ky, loc:Kentucky, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1914, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:medical, su:southern, ts:biography

Memories of Three Score Years and Ten

“Served in the Amelia Minute Men, afterward known as Co. H, 44th VA Vols. during war Presbyterian minister.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Baltimore MD, loc:Columbia SC, loc:Farmville VA, loc:Lynchburg VA, milt:44th Virginia Infantry Regiment, pd:1908, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:military, su:Reconstruction, su:war experience, ts:biography

Matthew Fontaine Maury

Tags: era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Topping Castle Va, loc:Virginia, pd:1918, su:confederate, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

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