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1) Civil warriors

Publisher

distributed by Vivendi Entertainment

Pub. Date

c2011

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In recognition of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, National Geographic follows descendants of Americans as they embark on journeys to discover the stories of their ancestors in the bloodiest war in American history. Revealed are amazing stories of lives turned upside down by the Civil War, from a Virginian slaveholding lady to a Union officer and a Confederate private. Vivid recreations and innovative graphic techniques take viewers back in...

2) A woman's civil war: a diary with reminiscences of the war from March 1862

Author

McDonald, Cornelia Peake

Publisher

University of Wisconsin Press

Pub. Date

c1992

3) A diary from Dixie

Author

Chesnut, Mary Boykin

Series

Barnes and Noble Library of Essential Reading

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"A Diary From Dixie" is Mary Boykin Chesnut's celebrated firsthand account of life in the Confederate South during the Civil War years of 1861-1865. Chesnut, the wife of a Confederate Senator and Brigadier General described the life of an upper-class planter society confronting the encroaching realities of the end of slavery and her peers' way of life. Full of important personages and eminently readable, the Diary was quoted extensively in Ken Burns'...

4) Destruction and reconstruction; personal experiences of the late war

Author

Taylor, Richard

Series

Southern Classics

Publisher

Longmans, Green

Pub. Date

1955

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In this unique series, the Civil War comes vividly to life, as those who were there give eye-witness accounts from both sides of the bloody conflict. A sugar farmer and gentleman politician with no military training before the war, General Richard Taylor--son of President Zachary Taylor--plays a major role in the Red River campaign. Out of print since 1879. (Excerpt from Goodreads)

5) I rode with Stonewall, being chiefly the war experiences of the youngest member of Jackson's staff from the John Brown raid to the hanging of Mrs. Surratt

Author

Douglas, Henry Kyd

Publisher

The University of North Carolina press

Pub. Date

[c1940]

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I Rode with Stonewall.

6) Lone star and double eagle: Civil War letters of a German-Texas family

Author

Goyne, Minetta Altgelt

Publisher

Texas Christian University Press

Pub. Date

c1982

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"[This book] concentrates upon a strongly bonded family during a period of separation that is necessarily preserved in much greater detail than their happier moments spent in one another's company. Being based to a large extent on letters that surely were never intended for the eyes of anyone outside the family and an intimate circle of friends, it also gives a more spontaneous view than most journals offer. These letters, preserved for more than...