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Memorabilia and Anecdotal Reminiscences of Columbia, S. C., and Incidents Connected Therewith.
“Includes, Simms’s "Sack and Destruction of Columbia," 154-196 pp. Selby recounts many stories concerning Columbia, SC, which he had "stored away on memory's shelf’ over the years. Some of his exciting tales include memories of the old Columbia…
Memorials of a Southern Planter
“Wartime portion of this fine recollection of Thomas Dabney and his family; Union occupation in Mississippi, refugee life in Macon, Georgia, and the sad but genteel poverty of a proud man after the war.”
Memoirs of a Southerner, 1840-1923
"Pictures of plantation life in McIntosh County seaboard served as a CSA soldier and wartime Savannah.”
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 invading-and mention Union balloon observers.”
Memorials of Academic Life, Being a Historical Sketch of the Waddel Family, Identified Through Three Generations with the History of Higher Education in South and Southwest
“Dr. Moses Waddel was President of the University of Georgia. Includes a sketch. Also, an autobiography of John N. Waddel and material on wartime Mississippi.”
My Greatest Childhood Sorrow
“Unknown time or place. A said recollection of the effects of the war on a young boy’s neighbor.”
Missouri Girl's Prison Experiences
“August 1864. Central Missouri. A young woman from Boonville, Missouri describes her travels after being arrested by Union officers.”