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The Freedmen of Port Royal

“March 25 to May 10, 1862. Port Royal and Beaufort area. South Carolina. A Northern visitor describes the efforts to educate former slaves from the Sea Islands at Port Royal.”

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The Negroes at Port Royal: Report of E. L. Pierce, Government Agent, to the Hon. Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury.

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Memoirs of a Southerner, 1840-1923

"Pictures of plantation life in McIntosh County seaboard served as a CSA soldier and wartime Savannah.”

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LAND AND LABOR IN KENTUCKY, 1865; LETTERS TO GEORGE LEWIS GREATHOUSE

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Letters from Little Rock of Captain James M. Bowler, 112th United States Colored Troops

“The letters of a Union captain to his wife and mother written during his stay in the area around Little Rock, from July to December 1864.”

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A Visit to South Carolina in 1860

“April 1860. South Carolina. This observer recalled the key personalities and places in Charleston and Columbia in the year before the war began.”

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To Tuscaloosa and Beyond: A Union Cavalry Raider in Alabama, March-April 1865

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Six Months in the Federal States

“Edward Dicey was an English author and journalist, on his trip to America he was the special correspondent of MACMILLAN'S MAGAZINE and the SPECTATOR. Portions of his American account appeared in the pages of these periodicals before being…

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