personal narratives, confederate

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.

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.

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

Diary of Sarah Morgan who lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana describing life in the South during the Civil War.

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

Presents a collection of essays that describes the personality of Confederate General Robert E. Lee based on his unpublished personal correspondence; and examines his early years, his relationships with family and slaves, and his thoughts on military strategy.

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.

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.