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American Civil War, 1861-1865: First Hand Accounts

Soldiers' Letters and Diaries

Army Life in a Black Regiment
Publication Date: 2001
Publisher: Digital Scanning, Inc.
Army Life by A. O. Marshall; Robert G. Schultz (Editor)
Publication Date: 2009
Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press
Berry Benson's Civil War Book by Edward J. Cashin (Introduction by); Berry Benson; Susan Williams Benson (Editor)
Publication Date: 2007
Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Web Resources

Your Affectionate Son: Civil War Letters of Daniel Francis Kemp and Family
Documenting the American South
"Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs."

Citizens' Letters and Diaries

Wanted - Correspondence by Nancy L. Rhoades (Editor); Lucy E. Bailey (Editor)
Publication Date: 2009
Publisher: Ohio University Press
An Idler by Douglas W. Hill
Publication Date: 2005
Publisher: Academica Press
John Washington's Civil War by John Washington; Crandall A. Shifflett
Publication Date: 2008
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937 by Sarah E. Gardner
Publication Date: 2004
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press