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The diary of Keziah Brevard evokes the mundane concerns of the plantation period. It also documents her reflections on the events leading up to the American Civil War: the election of Abraham Lincoln, South Carolina's secession convention and the attack on Fort Sumter.
Covering 13 months of combat in one of the Confederacy's rare siege artillery units, Major Edward Manigault's journal offers a day-by-day account of life on the front lines during the American Civil War. The journal is especially noted for its description of artillery training.
This is the diary of John S. Jackman, a Confederate soldier in the Orphan Brigade, a regiment in Tennessee's 9th Kentucky Brigade which... Læs mere
The wife of a physician, mother of ten children, and mistress of five slaves, Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox,... Læs mere
The story of one of America's first historic preservationists and the city she fought to save. This biography... Læs mere
This is the story of Johnny Reb and Billy Yank - soldiers who recorded their experiences and emotions in a great outpouring of letter-writing at the time of the American Civil... Læs mere
Reprinted for the first time in more than forty years this memoir offers a candid look into the daily life of a Low Country South... Læs mere
The Civil War was the first major American conflict in which women nurses played a significant role. This diary records the daily experiences, hardships and joys of a Southern plantation owner and widow whose patriotism prompted her to care for confederate wounded.
Jubal Anderson Early ranked among the most important generals who fought with Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. This is Early's personal account of the war, originally released in 1866. Gary W. Gallagher's introduction explicates Early's military career.
First published in 1879, this book chronicles Pheobe Pember's experiences as matron of the Confederate Chimborazo Hospital from November 1862 until the fall of Richmond in April 1865.
Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918) accomplished a political revolution in South Carolina when he defeated Governor Wade Hampton and the old guard Bourbons who had run the state since the end of reconstruction. This work is his biography.