Diaries and Letters in the Library Stacks: U.S. Civil War

Esther Hill Hawks went south in the 1860s to minister to black Union troops and newly freed slaves both as a teacher and a doctor. She kept a diary and described the South she saw.

Documents one plantation mistress's personal reflections on the events that were to shape both her world and her Southern homeland for years to come : the election of Abraham Lincoln, South Carolina's session convention, and the attack on Fort Sumter.

Civil War letters of Harvey Reid

Through nearly two hundred letters, the son of a wealthy Boston abolitionist wrote of his experiences as the commander of the all-black 54th Massachusetts Infantry in the Civil War.

This title combines the personal experiences of Rufus R Dawes with the history of the regiment in which he served.

The letters highlight both well-known and untold aspects of Wisconsin's participation in the Civil War.

A young widow's account of caring for wounded Confederates.

The life of the family of Lieutenant Marcus Bethune Ely and his unit, the Russell Guards (Co. H, 54th Georgia Regiment).

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.

House, only nineteen in 1863, documents the Union occupation of Knoxville and her eventual deportation for suspected spying.

A firsthand account of the Civil War and Reconstruction in the Old South rice kingdom.

The Civil War correspondence exchanged between members of the James Carrington Francis family of Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Alabama.