personal narratives, confederate

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A Confederate girl

the diary of Carrie Berry, 1864
Excerpts from the diary of Carrie Berry, describing her family's life in the Confederate south in 1864. Supplemented by sidebars, activities, and a timeline of the era.

The life of Johnny Reb

the common soldier of the Confederacy
1978

A diary from Dixie

1980
In her diary, Mary Boykin Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate general and aid to president Jefferson Davis, James Chestnut, Jr., presents an eyewitness account of the Civil War.

Diary of a Confederate soldier

John S. Jackman of the Orphan Brigade
1990

Berry Benson's Civil War book

memoirs of a Confederate scout and sharpshooter
1992
Anecdotes detail a Confederate soldier's life in the Civil War as he becomes a crack shot, leader, and an escaped POW.

Sarah Morgan

the Civil War diary of a southern woman
1992
Diary of Sarah Morgan who lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana describing life in the South during the Civil War.

The diary of Sam Watkins, a Confederate soldier

2004
A young Confederate soldier records his fears, experiences, and thoughts about the war in his journal.

Reading the man

a portrait of Robert E. Lee through his private lettters
2007
Presents a collection of essays that describes the personality of Confederate General Robert E. Lee based on his unpublished personal correspondence; and examines his early years, his relationships with family and slaves, and his thoughts on military strategy.

Mary Chesnut's Civil War

1981
Presents the 1861-65 diaries of Mary Chesnut, an aristocratic woman from South Carolina, which give a firsthand look at well-to-do civilian life in the Confederacy.

The war the women lived

female voices from the Confederate South
1995
An account of the Civil War as seen through the domestic experiences of Southern women, looking at what was happening in homes, hospitals, churches, and prisons, and including scenes from the battlefields and on shipboard.

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