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Beleaguered Charleston: Letters from the City, 1860-1864, Part 2
Beleaguered Charleston: Letters from the City, 1860-1864, Part 3
The Southern Diary of William John Grayson, Part 1"May 10-November 18, 1862. This elderly Charleston political and literary figure was an ardent defender of slavery, but suspicious of the motives of…
The Southern Diary of William John Grayson, Part 2"May 10-November 18, 1862. This elderly Charleston political and literary figure was an ardent defender of slavery, but suspicious of the motives of…
Beleaguered Charleston: Letters from the City, 1860-1864, Part 1
Sue Sparks Keitt to a Northern Friend, March 4, 1861“March 4, 1861. Marlborough District, South Carolina. Mrs. Keitt, of South Carolina, offered Mrs. Brown with two reasons why Southern states were…
Laurence M. Keitt's Letters from the Provisional Congress of the Confederacy, 1861“February 13 - August 20, 1861. Montgomery, Alabama, and Richmond, Virginia. A young "Calhoonist" describes the creation of the CSA Congress.”
The Colonel's Lady Some Letters of Ellen Wilkins Tompkins, July-December 1861“July-December 1861. When her farm, "Gauley Mount" (Fayette County, Virginia), was occupied by Union forces, Mrs. Thompkins remained rather than…
War-Time Journal of a 'Little Rebell'“September 26, 1862-May 2, 1865. Near Courtland, Alabama. Excerpts from the diary of a young lady who began her writing on a plantation at age…
Rogues and Black Hearted Scamps: Civil War Letters of Winston and Octavia Stephens, 1862-1863