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Social Life in Old Virginia Before the War

Alphabetical List of First-Person Narratives of the American South

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Andrews, Eliza Frances, b. 1840
The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1908. 387 p.
LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901
edited by William Dallam Armes
The Autobiography of Joseph LeConte

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903. 337 p.
Arp, Bill, 1826-1903
Bill Arp from the Uncivil War to Date, 1861-1903

Atlanta, Ga.: The Hudgins Publishing Company, 1903, c1902. 378 p.
Ashby, Thomas A. (Thomas Almond), 1848-1916
The Valley Campaigns: Being the Reminiscences of a Non-Combatant While Between the Lines in the Shenandoah Valley During the War of the States

New York: Neale Publishing Company, 1914. 327 p.
Aughey, John H. (John Hill), 1828-1911
Tupelo

Chicago: Rhodes & McClure Publishing Co., 1905, c1888. 600 p.
collected and edited by Myrta Lockett Avary
A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903. x, 384 p.
Avirett, James B. (James Battle), 1837?-1912
The Old Plantation: How We Lived in Great House and Cabin Before the War

New York; Chicago: F. Tennyson Neely Co., c1901. x, 202 p.

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Bagby, George William, 1828-1883
Canal Reminiscences: Recollections of Travel in the Old Days on the James River & Kanawha Canal

Richmond: West, Johnston & Co., 1879. 37 p.
Balch, T. B. (Thomas Bloomer), 1793-1878
My Manse During the War: A Decade of Letters to the Rev. J. Thomas Murray, Editor of the Methodist Protestant

Baltimore: Printed by Sherwood & Co., 1866. 42 p.
Ball, Charles
Fifty Years in Chains, or, The Life of an American Slave

New York: H. Dayton; Indianapolis, Ind.: Asher & Co., 1859. 430 p.
Battle, Laura Elizabeth Lee
illustrated by Bryan Burnes
Forget-me-nots of the Civil War; A Romance, Containing Reminiscences and Original Letters of Two Confederate Soldiers

St. Louis, Mo.: Press A. R. Fleming Printing Co., c1909. 355 p.
Beard, Ida M., b. 1862
My Own Life, or, A Deserted Wife

[North Carolina?: s.n., 1898?]. 212 p.
Betts, A. D. (Alexander Davis), 1832-1918
Experience of a Confederate Chaplain, 1861-1864

[Greenville? S. C.: s.n., 190-?]. 103 p.
Biggs, Asa, 1811-1878
Autobiography of Asa Biggs, Including a Journal of a Trip from North Carolina to New York in 1832

Raleigh, [N.C.]: Edwards & Broughton, 1915. 51 p.
Blackford, John, 1771-1839
Ferry Hill Plantation Journal: January 4, 1838 - January 15, 1839

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1961. xxv, 139 p.
Boggs, William Robertson, 1829-1911
Military Reminiscences of Gen. Wm. R. Boggs, C.S.A.

Durham, N.C.: The Seeman Printery, 1913. xxiii, 115 p.
Bokum, Hermann, 1807-1878
The Testimony of a Refugee from East Tennessee

Philadelphia: Printed for gratuitous distribution, 1863. 24 p.
Boyd, Belle, 1844-1900
Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.

London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1865. xi, 291 p.
Boyd, Belle, 1844-1900
Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.

London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1865. xv, 280 p.
Branch, Mary Polk
Memoirs of a Southern Woman "Within the Lines," and a Genealogical Record

Chicago: The Joseph G. Branch Publishing Co., c1912. 107 p.
Brown, David, 1786-1875
The Planter, or, Thirteen Years in the South by a Northern Man

Philadelphia: H. Hooker, 1853. 275 p.
Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Narrative of William W. Brown, an American Slave. Written by Himself

London: C. Gilpin, 1849. ix, 168 p.
Bruce, Henry Clay, 1836-1902
The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave,Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man

York, Pa.: P. Anstadt & Sons, 1895. 176 p.
Bryan, Mary Norcott, 1841-1925
A Grandmother's Recollections of Dixie

New Bern, N.C.: Owen G. Dunn, Printer, [1912?]. 43 p.
Burge, Dolly Lunt
A Woman's Wartime Journal: an Account of the Passage over Georgia's Plantation of Sherman's Army on the March to the Sea, as Recorded in the Diary of Dolly Sumner Lunt (Mrs. Thomas Burge)

New York: The Century Co., 1918. xi, 54 p.
Burton, Annie L., b. 1858?
Memories of Childhood's Slavery Days

Boston: Ross Publishing Company, 1909. 97 p.
Burton, Thomas William, b. 1860
What Experience Has Taught Me: An Autobiography of Thomas William Burton

Cincinnati: Press of Jennings and Graham, c1910. 126 p.
Burwell, Letitia M.
illustrated by William A. McCullough and Jules Turcas
A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, c1895. 209 p.

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Caldwell, Joseph, 1773-1835
Autobiography and Biography of Rev. Joseph Caldwell, D.D., L.L.D., First President of the University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, [N.C.]: J.B. Neathery, 1860. 68 p.
Carroll, John W. (John William), b. 1841
Autobiography and Reminiscences of John W. Carroll

Henderson, Tenn.: [s.n.], 1898. 66 p.
Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller, 1823-1886
A Diary from Dixie, as Written by Mary Boykin Chesnut, Wife of James Chesnut, Jr., United States Senator from South Carolina, 1859-1861, and Afterward an Aide to Jefferson Davis and a Brigadier-General in the Confederate Army

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1905. xxii, 424 p.
Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897
edited by Lydia Maria Francis Child
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself

Boston: Published for the Author, 1861, c1860. 306 p.
Clay-Clopton, Virginia, 1825-1915
A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, Covering Social and Political Life in Washington and the South, 1853-66

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905, c1904. xxii, 386 p.
Clinkscales, J. G. (John George), 1855-1942
On the Old Plantation: Reminiscences of His Childhood

Spartanburg, S.C.: Band & White Publishers, 1916. 142 p.
Collis, Septima M. (Septima Maria), 1842-1917
A Woman's War Record, 1861-1865

New York; London: G.P. Putnam's Sons; Knickerbocker Press, 1889. 78 p.
Compton, Lucius B. (Lucius Bunyan), 1875-1948
Life of Lucius B. Compton, the Mountain Evangelist, or, From the Depths of Sin to the Heights of Holiness

Cincinnati, Ohio: Office of God's Revivalist, c1903. 102 p.
Copley, John M.
A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn.; with Reminiscences of Camp Douglas

Austin, Tex.: Eugene von Boeckmann, 1893. 206 p.
Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922
illustrated by Genevieve Cowles and Maude Cowles
Social Life in Old Virginia before the War

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. viii, 109 p.
Crumpton, H. J. (Hezekiah Jones), b. 1828 and
Crumpton, Washington Bryan, 1842-1926
The Adventures of Two Alabama Boys

Montgomery, Ala.: Paragon Press, 1912. 238 p.
Curry, J. L. M. (Jabez Lamar Monroe), 1825-1903
The South in the Olden Time

Harrisburg, Pa.: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1901. 16 p.

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Davis, Rebecca Harding, 1831-1910
Bits of Gossip

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1904. 233 p.
Dawson, Sarah Morgan, 1842-1909
A Confederate Girl's Diary

Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, 1913. xix, 439 p.
De Saussure, N. B. (Nancy Bostick), 1837-1915
Old Plantation Days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War

New York: Duffield & Company, 1909. 123 p.
Dimitry, Adelaide Stuart
War-Time Sketches: Historical and Otherwise

New Orleans, La.: Louisiana Printing Co. Press, [1911?]. v, 92 p.
Dupré, Louis J.
Fagots from the Campfire

Washington, D.C.: Emily Thornton Charles & Co., 1881. 199 p.

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Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894
Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early C.S.A.: Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War between the States

Philadelphia; London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1912. xxvi, 496 p.
Edmondson, Belle, 1840-1873
Diary of Belle Edmondson, January - November, 1864

Transcript of the manuscript, UNC-Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection, 139 p.
Edwards, William James, b. 1869
Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt

Boston: The Cornhill Company, c1918. xvii, 143 p.
Eggleston, George Cary, 1839-1911
A Rebel's Recollections

New York: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge (Mass.): The Riverside Press, 1875, c1874. 260 p.

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edited by Frances Hewitt Fearn and illustrated by Rosalie Urquhart
Diary of a Refugee

New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1910. ix, 149 p.
Fee, John Gregg, 1816-1901
Autobiography of John G. Fee: Berea, Kentucky

Chicago, Ill.: National Christian Association, 1891. 211 p.
Felton, Rebecca Latimer, 1835-1930
Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth

Atlanta, Ga.: Index Printing Company, c1919. 299 p.
Ferebee, L. R. (London R.), b. 1849
A Brief History of the Slave Life of Rev. L. R. Ferebee, and the Battles of Life, and Four Years of His Ministerial Life. Written from Memory. To 1882

Raleigh: Edwards, Broughton & Co., Steam Printers, Publishers and Binders, 1882. 22 p.
Ford, Arthur Peronneau and
Ford, Marion Johnstone
Life in the Confederate Army: Being Personal Experiences of a Private Soldier in the Confederate Army ; and Some Experiences and Sketches of Southern Life

New York; Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1905. 136 p.

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A Georgia Negro Peon
The New Slavery in the South--An Autobiography

From The Independent, 56 (Feb. 25, 1904): 409-414. New York: Published for the proprietors, 1904. 409-414 p.
Gilman, Caroline Howard, 1794-1888
Recollections of a Southern Matron

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1838. 272 p.
Gordon, John Brown, 1832-1904
Reminiscences of the Civil War

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; Atlanta: Martin & Hoyt Co., 1904, c1903. xxxi, 474 p.
Grandy, Moses, b. 1786?
Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America

London: Gilpin, 1843. 72 p.
Green, Wharton J. (Wharton Jackson), 1831-1910
Recollections and Reflections: An Auto of Half a Century and More

[Raleigh, N.C.]: Edwards and Broughton Printing Company, 1906. 349 p.
Greenhow, Rose O'Neal, 1814-1864
My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington

London: Richard Bentley, 1863. x, 352 p.
Grimball, Margaret Ann Meta Morris, 1810-1881
Journal of Meta Morris Grimball: South Carolina, December 1860-February 1866

Transcript of the manuscript, UNC-Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection, 118 p.
Grimes, Bryan, 1828-1880
Extracts of Letters of Major-Gen'l Bryan Grimes to His Wife: Written While in Active Service in the Army of Northern Virginia: Together with Some Personal Recollections of the War, Written by Him After its Close, etc.

Raleigh, NC: Edwards, Broughton & Co., Steam Printers and Binders, 1883. 137 p.

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Hamill, H. M. (Howard Melancthon), 1847-1915
The Old South, a Monograph

Dallas, Texas; Nashville, Tenn.: Smith & Lamar, Agents, Publishing House of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, [1904]. 79 p.
Harland, Marion, 1830-1922
Marion Harland's Autobiography: The Story of a Long Life

New York; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1910. x, 497 p.
Harrison, Burton, 1843-1920
Recollections Grave and Gay

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. 386 p.
Holden, W. W. (William Woods), 1818-1892
Memoirs of W. W. Holden

Durham, NC: The Seeman Printery, 1911. viii, 199 p.
Horton, George Moses, 1798?-ca. 1880
Life of George M. Horton. The Colored Bard of North Carolina from "The Poetical Works of George M. Horton, the Colored Bard of North Carolina, to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, written by himself."

Hillsborough: Heartt, 1845. 20 p.
Horton, George Moses, 1798?-ca. 1880
The Poetical Works of George M. Horton: The Colored Bard of North Carolina: To Which is Prefixed the Life of the Author, Written by Himself

Hillsborough [N.C.]: Printed by D. Heartt, 1845. xx, 96 p.
Houghton, W. R. (William Robert), 1842-1906 and
Houghton, M. B. (Mitchell Bennett), 1845?-
Two Boys in the Civil War and After

Montgomery, Ala.,: Paragon Press, 1912. 242 p.
Howard, Wiley C.
Sketch of Cobb Legion Cavalry and Some Incidents and Scenes Remembered

[s.l.: s.n., 1901]. 20 p.
Hughes, Louis, b. 1832
Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom: The Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter

Milwaukee: South Side Printing Company, 1897. 210 p.
Hughes, Thomas, 1850-
A Boy's Experience in the Civil War, 1860-1865

[s.l.: s.n.], c1904. 55 p.

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Jackson, John Andrew
The Experience of a Slave in South Carolina

London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1862. 48 p.
Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897
edited by Lydia Maria Francis Child
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself

Boston: Published for the Author, 1861, c1860. 306 p.
Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel McPherson), 1801-1880
Memoirs of Samuel M. Janney: Late of Lincoln, Loudoun County, Va.: A Minister in the Religious Society of Friends

Philadelphia: Friends' Book Association, 1881. x, 309 p.
Jervey, Susan R. (Susan Ravenel), b. 1840 and
Ravenel, Charlotte St. J.
Two Diaries from Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865

[Pinopolis, S.C.]: St. John's Hunting Club, 1921. 56 p.
Johnston, David E. (David Emmons), 1845-1917
The Story of a Confederate Boy in the Civil War

Portland, Or.: Glass & Prudhomme Co., c1914. xiv , 379 p.
Johnston, Richard Malcolm, 1822-1898
Autobiography of Col. Richard Malcolm Johnston

Washington: The Neale Company, 1900. 190 p.
Jones, Charles Colcock, 1831-1893
The Siege of Savannah in December, 1864, and the Confederate Operations in Georgia and the Third Military District of South Carolina During General Sherman's March from Atlanta to the Sea

Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell, 1874, c1875. x, 184 p.
Jones, Thomas H.
Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones; Who Was for Forty Years a Slave. Also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina

Boston: Published by H. B. Skinner, [185-?]. 54 p.
Jones, Thomas H.
The Experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones, Who Was a Slave for Forty-Three Years. Written by a Friend, as Related to Him by Brother Jones

New Bedford: E. Anthony & Sons, Printers, 1885. 84 p.
Jones, Thomas H.
The Experience of Thomas H. Jones, who was a Slave for Forty-Three Years

Boston: Printed by Bazin & Chandler, 1862. 46 p.

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Kearney, Belle, 1863-1939
A Slaveholder's Daughter

New York: The Abbey Press, c1900. iv, 269 p.
Kell, John McIntosh, 1823-1900
Recollections of a Naval Life: Including the Cruises of the Confederate States Steamers, "Sumter" and "Alabama"

Washington: The Neale Company, 1900. 307 p.

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Lane, Isaac, 1834-1937
Autobiography of Bishop Isaac Lane, LL.D. with a Short History of the C.M.E. Church in America and of Methodism

Nashville, Tenn.: Printed for the author, Publishing House of the M.E. Church, South, 1916. 192 p.
LeConte, Emma Florence
Diary, 1864-1865: (Transcript)

Transcript of the manuscript, UNC-Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection, 86 p.
LeConte, Joseph, 1823-1901
edited by William Dallam Armes
The Autobiography of Joseph LeConte

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1903. 337 p.
Leigh, Frances Butler, 1838-1910
Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War

London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1883. xi, 347 p.
Leon, L. (Louis)
Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier

Charlotte, N.C.: Stone Publishing Co., c1913. i, 87 p.
Lomax, Virginia, b. 1831
The Old Capitol and its Inmates

New York: E. J. Hale & Son, 1867. 226 p.

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Macon, Thomas Joseph, 1839-1917
Life Gleanings

Richmond, Va.: W.H. Adams, 1913. 101 p.
Mallard, R. Q. (Robert Q.), 1830-1904
Plantation Life before Emancipation

Richmond, Va.: Whittet & Shepperson, 1892. xi, 3-237 p.
Malone, Bartlett Yancey, b. 1838
The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1919. 59 p.
Mason, Isaac, b. 1822
Life of Isaac Mason as a Slave

Worcester, Mass.: [s.n.], 1893. 74 p.
Maury, Dabney Herndon, 1822-1900
Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. xi, 279 p.
Burwell, Letitia M.
illustrated by William A. McCullough and Jules Turcas
A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, c1895. 209 p.
McKim, Randolph Harrison, 1842-1920
A Soldier's Recollections: Leaves from the Diary of a Young Confederate: With an Oration on the Motives and Aims of the Soldiers of the South

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1910. xvii, 362 p.
McLeary, A. C.
Humorous Incidents of the Civil War

[s.l.: s.n., 1902?]. 23 p.
Merrick, Caroline Elizabeth Thomas, b. 1825
Old Times in Dixie Land: a Southern Matron's Memories

New York: Grafton Press, 1901. 241 p.
Mitchel, Cora
Reminiscences of the Civil War

Providence: Snow & Farnham Co., [1916?]. 43 p.
Montgomery, Frank Alexander, b. 1830
Reminiscences of a Mississippian in Peace and War

Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company Press, 1901. xv, 305 p.
Morgan, Irby
How It Was: Four Years Among the Rebels

Nashville, Tenn: Printed for the author [by] Publishing house, Methodist Episcopal Church South, 1892. 204 p.
Morgan, James Morris, 1845-1928
Recollections of a Rebel Reefer

Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1917. xxi, 491 p.
Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916
The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1917. xxi, 414 p.
Moton, Robert Russa, 1867-1940
Finding a Way Out: An Autobiography

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921, c1920. ix, 295 p.

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A Negro Nurse
More Slavery at the South

From The Independent, 72 (Jan. 25, 1912): 196-200. New York: Published for the proprietors, 1912. 196-200 p.
Northup, Solomon, b. 1808
Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853

Auburn [N.Y.]: Derby and Miller, 1853. 336 p.

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O'Connor, T. P., d. 1931
My Beloved South

New York; London: G.P. Putnam's Sons; The Knickerbocker Press, 1914, c1913. viii, 427 p.
Olive, Johnson, 1816-1885
One of the Wonders of the Age, or, The Life and Times of Rev. Johnson Olive, Wake County, North Carolina

Raleigh: Edwards, Broughton & Co., 1886. 314 p.

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Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922
illustrated by Genevieve Cowles and Maude Cowles
Social Life in Old Virginia before the War

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897. viii, 109 p.
Patton, James, 1756-1845
Biography of James Patton

Asheville, N.C.: [s.n.], 1850. 34 p.
Paxton, Elisha Franklin, 1828-1863
Memoir and Memorials: Elisha Franklin Paxton, Brigadier-General, C.S.A.; Composed of his Letters from Camp and Field While an Officer in the Confederate Army, with an Introductory and Connecting Narrative Collected and Arranged by his Son, John Gallatin Paxton

New York: The Neale Publishing Co., 1907. vi, 114 p.
Smith, David, b. 1784 and
Payne, Daniel Alexander, 1811-1893
Biography of Rev. David Smith of the A. M. E. Church; Being a Complete History, Embracing over Sixty Years' Labor in the Advancement of the Redeemer's Kingdom on Earth. Including "The History of the Origin and Development of Wilberforce University."

Xenia, O[hio]: Printed at the Xenia Gazette Office, 1881. 135 p.
Pickens, William, 1881-1954
The Heir of Slaves: An Autobiography

Boston: The Pilgrim Press, 1911. 138 p.
Pickett, George E. (George Edward), 1825-1875
The Heart of a Soldier: As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Genl. George E. Pickett C.S.A.

New York: Seth Moyle, c1913. 215 p.
Plake, Kate, b. 1838
The Southern Husband Outwitted by His Union Wife

Philadelphia: Printed for the Authoress by Moore & Brother, c1868. viii, 161 p.
Pringle, Elizabeth Waties Allston, 1845-1921
Illustrated by Alice R. Huger Smith
A Woman Rice Planter

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914, c1913. xiii, 450 p.
Pryor, Sara Agnes Rice, 1830-1912
My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1909. ix, 454 p.

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Rankin, G. C. (George C.), 1849-1915
The Story of My Life or More Than a Half Century As I Have Lived and Seen It Lived Written by Myself at My Own Suggestion and That of Many Others Who Have Known and Loved Me

Nashville, TN; Dallas, TX: Smith & Lamar, c1912. [v], 356 p.
Jervey, Susan R. (Susan Ravenel), b. 1840 and
Ravenel, Charlotte St. J.
Two Diaries from Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865

[Pinopolis, S.C.]: St. John's Hunting Club, 1921. 56 p.
Ripley, Eliza Moore Chinn McHatten, 1832-1912
From Flag to Flag: A Woman's Adventures and Experiences in the South During the War, in Mexico, and in Cuba

New York: D. Appleton, c1888, 1889. 296 p.
Ripley, Eliza Moore Chinn McHatten, 1832-1912
Social Life in Old New Orleans. Being Recollections of My Girlhood

New York; London: D. Appleton and Company, 1912. 331 p.
Robinson, William H., b. 1848
From Log Cabin to the Pulpit, or, Fifteen Years in Slavery

Eau Clair, Wis.: James H. Tifft, 1913. 200 p.
Robson, John S., b. 1844
How a One-Legged Rebel Lives: Reminiscences of the Civil War: The Story of the Campaigns of Stonewall Jackson, as Told by a High Private in the "Foot Cavalry": From Alleghany Mountain to Chancellorsville: With the Complete Regimental Rosters of Both the Great Armies at Gettysburg

Durham, NC: Educator Co. Printers and Binders, 1898. 192 p.
Roper, Moses, b. 1815
Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery. With an Appendix, Containing a List of Places Visited by the Author in Great Britain and Ireland and the British Isles; and Other Matter

Berwick-upon-Tweed: Published for the author and printed at the Warder Office, 1848. i-vi,7-68 p.
Roper, Moses, b. 1815
A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery

Philadelphia: Merrihew & Gunn, 1838. 89 p.
Royall, William Lawrence, 1844-1911
Some Reminiscences

New York; Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1909. 210 p.

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Sawyer, Lemuel, 1777-1852
Autobiography of Lemuel Sawyer: Formerly Member of Congress from North Carolina

New York: Published for the Author, 1844. 48 p.
Saxon, Elizabeth Lyle, 1832-1915
A Southern Woman's War Time Reminiscences

Memphis, Tenn: Press of the Pilcher Printing Co., 1905. 72 p.
Shepherd, Henry E. (Henry Elliot), 1844-1929
Narrative of Prison Life at Baltimore and Johnson's Island, Ohio

Baltimore: Commercial Ptg. & Sta. Co., 1917. 22 p.
Sherrill, Miles O.
A Soldier's Story: Prison Life and Other Incidents in the War of 1861-'65

[s.l.: s.n., 1904?]. 20 p.
Smedes, Susan Dabney, 1840-1913
Memorials of a Southern Planter

Baltimore: Cushings & Bailey, 1887. 341 p.
Pringle, Elizabeth Waties Allston, 1845-1921
Illustrated by Alice R. Huger Smith
A Woman Rice Planter

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1914, c1913. xiii, 450 p.
Smith, David, b. 1784 and
Payne, Daniel Alexander, 1811-1893
Biography of Rev. David Smith of the A. M. E. Church; Being a Complete History, Embracing over Sixty Years' Labor in the Advancement of the Redeemer's Kingdom on Earth. Including "The History of the Origin and Development of Wilberforce University."

Xenia, O[hio]: Printed at the Xenia Gazette Office, 1881. 135 p.
Steward, Austin, 1794-1860
Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman; Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West

Rochester, N.Y.: William Alling, 1857. 360 p.
Stiles, Robert, 1836-1905
Four Years under Marse Robert

New York; Washington: The Neale Publishing Company, 1904. xvi, 368 p.
Stone, Henry Lane, b. 1842
"Morgan's Men:" A Narrative of Personal Experiences

Louisville: Brandt & Fowler, Inc., [1919]. 36 p.

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Taylor, Richard, 1826-1879
Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1879. 274 p.
Thomas, Edward J., b. 1840
Memoirs of a Southerner, 1840-1923

Savannah, Ga.: [s.n.], 1923, c1912. 64 p.
Burwell, Letitia M.
illustrated by William A. McCullough and Jules Turcas
A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, c1895. 209 p.

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compiled by United Daughters of the Confederacy. J.E.B. Stuart Chapter (Fayetteville, N.C.)
War Days in Fayetteville, North Carolina: Reminiscences of 1861 to 1865

Fayetteville, N.C.: [United Daughters of the Confederacy]: Judge Print. Co., [1910]. 60 p.
edited by Frances Hewitt Fearn and illustrated by Rosalie Urquhart
Diary of a Refugee

New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1910. ix, 149 p.

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Velazquez, Loreta Janeta, b. 1842
Edited by C. J. Worthington
The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Confederate States Army. In Which Is Given Full Descriptions of the Numerous Battles in which She Participated as a Confederate Officer; of Her Perilous Performances as a Spy, as a Bearer of Despatches, as a Secret-Service Agent, and as a Blockade-Runner; of Her Adventures Behind the Scenes at Washington, including the Bond Swindle; of her Career as a Bounty and Substitute Broker in New York; of Her Travels in Europe and South America; Her Mining Adventures on the Pacific Slope; Her Residence among the Mormons; Her Love Affairs, Courtships, Marriages, &c., &c.

Richmond, Va.: Dustin, Gilman & Co., 1876. 606 p.
Veney, Bethany
The Narrative of Bethany Veney: A Slave Woman

Worcester, Mass: [s.n.] ; (Boston : Press of Geo. H. Ellis), 1889. 46 p.

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Ward, Dallas T.
The Last Flag of Truce

Franklinton, N.C.: [D.T. Ward?, 1915?]. 16 p.
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
My Larger Education: Being Chapters from My Experience

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1911. viii, 313 p.
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., c1901. ix, 330 p.
Watterson, Henry, 1840-1921
Marse Henry: An Autobiography. Volume I

New York: George H. Doran Company, c1919. xiii, 315 p.
Watterson, Henry, 1840-1921
Marse Henry: An Autobiography. Volume II

New York: George H. Doran Company, c1919. xiii, 315 p.
Whitaker, Fess, b. 1880
History of Corporal Fess Whitaker

Louisville, Ky.: The Standard Printing Co., c1918. 152 p.
Williams, James, b. 1805
Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, Who Was for Several Years a Driver on a Cotton Plantation in Alabama

New York: American Anti-Slavery Society; Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838. 108 p.
Wise, John S. (John Sargeant), 1846-1913
The End of an Era

Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1899. iv, 474 p.
Wood, James H.
The War; "Stonewall" Jackson, His Campaigns, and Battles, the Regiment as I Saw Them

Cumberland, Md.: Eddy Press Corporation, [1910]. iv, 181 p.
Worsham, John H.
One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry: His Experience and what He Saw During the War 1861-1865, Including a History of "F Company," Richmond, Va., 21st Regiment Virginia Infantry, Second Brigade, Jackson's Division, Second Corps, A. N. Va.

New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1912. 353 p.
Velazquez, Loreta Janeta, b. 1842
Edited by C. J. Worthington
The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures, and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Confederate States Army. In Which Is Given Full Descriptions of the Numerous Battles in which She Participated as a Confederate Officer; of Her Perilous Performances as a Spy, as a Bearer of Despatches, as a Secret-Service Agent, and as a Blockade-Runner; of Her Adventures Behind the Scenes at Washington, including the Bond Swindle; of her Career as a Bounty and Substitute Broker in New York; of Her Travels in Europe and South America; Her Mining Adventures on the Pacific Slope; Her Residence among the Mormons; Her Love Affairs, Courtships, Marriages, &c., &c.

Richmond, Va.: Dustin, Gilman & Co., 1876. 606 p.
Wright, Louise Wigfall, 1846-1915
A Southern Girl in '61: The War-Time Memories of a Confederate Senator's Daughter

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905. xii, 258 p.
Wright, Marcus Joseph, 1831-1922
Diary of Brigadier-General Marcus J. Wright, C.S.A.: April 23, 1861 - February 26, 1863

[s.l.: s.n., 193-?]. 8 p.
Wyeth, John A. (John Allan), 1845-1922
With Sabre and Scalpel; the Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon

New York; London: Harper & Brothers, 1914. xix, 534 p.

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Young, Lot D., b. 1842
Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Orphan Brigade

[Louisville: Courier-journal Job Printing Company, 1918?]. 99 p.

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Zettler, B. M. (Berrien McPherson), b. 1842
War Stories and School-Day Incidents for the Children

New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1912. 168 p.

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