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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…
My Confederate Grandmothers“1861-1865. Texas. A woman recalls stories about her grandmothers’ wartime experiences.”
My Confederate Girlhood: The Memoirs of Kate Virginia Cox Logan“Recalled her war years at Clover Hill, plantation source of coal for Richmond.”
My Christmas Dinner in 1863“December 1863. LaGrange, Georgia. A hungry Confederate captain on furlough describes the joy of eating a turkey who “died of a sore throat.”
My Childhood Recollections of the War“1861-1865. Virginia. The war years as recalled by a woman who was five years of age when the conflict began.”
My Cave Life in Vicksburg.: With Letters of Trial and Travel"A valuable story of a gentlewoman's experiences under siege at Vicksburg."—Civil War Books. Most revealing for the trials endured by the inhabitants…
My Beloved South
My Autobiography by W.J. Cotter, Who has Lived Nearly a Quarter Century Beyond the Allotted Three Score Years and Ten and has Been a Methodist Preacher in Georgia for 73 Years“Ministry in Georgia, among Cherokees, much on the Civil War.”
Mrs. Tinsley's War Recollections, 1862-1865“1862-1863. Near Richmond, Virginia. These memoirs, written in 1911 by a plantation wife describe life in the Peninsula-while Yankee troops were…
Mrs. Rose Greenhow's Book