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My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as a Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps, and at the Front During the War of the Rebellion.“Hospital scenes and work at the Sanitary Fairs captivated this war observer. Mrs. Livermore's activities were confined almost entirely to Chicago,…
From a New England Woman's Diary in Dixie in 1865"May-July 1865. Privately printed. Author's diary describing her teaching experiences on Edisto Island, near Charleston, SC."
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…
RECOLLECTIONS OF CIVIL WAR TIMES IN KENTUCKY
A Girl's Recollections of War“1863? Pulaski County, Virginia. “A schoolgirl during the War” remembers poignant events on the home front.”
An Abstract From the Journal of Mrs. Hugh H. Lee of Winchester, VA, May 23-31, 1862“May 23-31, 1862. First Winchester. A chronicle of "Stonewall" Jackson's capture of Winchester and his evacuation of the town, once again leaving it…
The Dusky Wings of War: The Journal of Lucy G. Breckinridge, 1862-1864
Life in the Sixties (1860)
Dickison and his men. Reminiscences of the War in Florida.
A Monotony Full of Sadness: The Diary of Nadine Turchin, May, 1863-April, 1864“May 26, 1863-April 26, 1864. Wife of Brigadier General John Basil Tuchin who followed her husband to Tennessee. She was critical of everyone in…