Richard Taylor (1826-1879), son of President Zachary Taylor and brother-in-law of Jefferson Davis, was a planter, politician, and general. Taylor's memoir of his Civil War and Reconstruction experiences is regarded as one of the best-written of the period. His recollections focus on his service in Virginia under Stonewall Jackson and later as commander of the department of Alabama, Mississippi and East Louisiana.

"Fannie" Beers was born and lived in the North until she married A.P. Beers, a Southern student at Yale University.The couple moved to the South where they spent the next few years in Louisiana before Mr. Beers was mustered into Confederate service with his company of the Crescent Rifles. After the need became evident, she rejoined her husband in Virginia where she made her name as a nurse first in Richmond and later in hospitals in Georgia and Alabama....

Sallie Ann Brock (Putman) writes from her first hand familiarities with life in Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy – from the initial days of “secession fever,” to the glorious early months of victories – on through the terrible privations of the war years, the bread riots, and countless other adversities. She concludes with sketches of the death throes of the Confederate States of America, as experienced in Richmond, Virginia. However,...

This volume is widely recognized as one of the best Confederate memoirs by a dedicated and articulate Christian officer. McKim records his remarkable military career which included service in the artillery, infantry, and cavalry as a private, a staff officer, and finally as chaplain of the 2nd Virginia Cavalry. He was a man faithful to his country and lived a life every Christian young man can admire and emulate. In addition, the editor, an academic...

Confederate operations in Canada and New York.

For four long years, the American Civil War tore America apart. This book relates a very Southern take on those years, looking at life in the major cities of the South during the war. DeLeon’s narrative not only offers a rich wealth of detail into the facts of life in the South during those years, it also gives an insight into the attitudes of the time, and of subsequent years. The archive nature of this work and the historical period in which in...