Her War

Interpreting Women's Lives during the American Civil War

Diaries, Letters, and Memoirs

Adams, Lois Bryan. Letter from Washington, 1863-1865. 1999

Alleman, Tillie Pierce. At Gettysburg, Or What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle. 1888. Reprint Butternut and Blue, 1987.

Baker, Cheryl Jackson. Affectionately Your’s: The Civil War Letters of William R. Jackson and His Wife Julia. 2014. Badgley Publishing Company.

Bond, Priscilla. Kimberly Harrison, ed. A Maryland Bride in the Deep South: The Civil War Diary of Priscilla Bond. 2006.

Buck, Lucy Rebecca. Shadows on My Heart: The Civil War Diary of Lucy Rebecca Buck of Virginia. 1997.

Bucklin, Sophronia E. In Hospital and Camp: A Woman’s Record of Thrilling Incidents Among the Wounded in the Civil War. Originally published 1869. Current edition Big Byte Books, 2014.

Bunkers, Suzane L. ed. The Diary of Caroline Seabury 1854-1863. 1991

Byers, Mary Adelia. Torn by War: The Civil War Journal of Mary Adelia Byers. 2013

Cashin, Joan E, ed.: Our Common Affairs: Texts From Women in the Old South. 1996.

Chase, Julia and Laura Lee. Winchester Divided: The Civil War Diaries of Julia Chase and Laura Lee. 2002.

Cotton, Gordon A. ed. From the Pen of a She-Rebel: The Civil War Dairy of Emilie Riley McKinley. 2001

Croon, Janet. ed. The War Outside My Window: The Civil War Diary of LeRoy Wiley Gresham, 1860-1865. 2018

Daly, Maria Lydig. Diary of a Union Lady, 1861-1865. 2000

Dawson, Sarah Morgan. Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman. 1992

Dimond, E. Grey and Harman Hattaway, ed. Letters from Forest Place: A Plantation Family’s Correspondence, 1846-1881. 1993

Donohue, Patricia A. The Printer’s Kiss: The Life and Letters of a Civil War Newspaperman and His Family. 2014

Dowlin, Mary Jane. The Diaries of Mary Jane Dowlin 1864-1865. Transcribed by Maisie Hodes-Wood. 2000

East, Charles, ed. Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Woman. 1991.

Erwin, Margaret Johnson and John Seymour Erwin. Like Some Green Laurel: Letters of Margaret Johnson Erwin, 1821-1863

Fox, Tryphena Blanche Holder. Northern Woman in the Plantation South: Letters of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, 1856-1876. 1997

Formby, Colleen. 19th Century Diaries and Letters. Scroll to the bottom of the page for the download link.

Gaillard, Frye. Journey to the Wilderness: War, Memory, and a Southern Family’s Civil War Letters. 2015

Gott, John K. My Heart Is So Rebellious: The Caldwell Letters 1861-1865. 1991

Haas, Shirley A. A Refugee at Hanover Tavern: The Civil War Diary of Margaret Wight. 2013

Hague, Parthenia. A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War.2005

Hanson, Kathleen S. Turn Backward, O Time: The Civil War Diary of Amanda Shelton. 2006

Hill, Sarah Jane Full. Mrs. Hill’s Journal. 1980

Holmes, Emma. Diary of Miss Emma Holmes 1861-1866. 1994

Holmes, Kenneth L., ed. Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1854-1860. 1987

Jones, Katharine. The Diary of a Southern Lady. 2013

Laas, Virginia Jeans. Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee. 1991

Le Grand, Julia. The Journal of Julia Le Grand New Orleans 1862-1863. 2009

Lensink, Judy Nolte. A Secret to Be Burried: The Diary and Life of Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1858-1888. 1989

Livermore, Mary A. My Story of the War. 1896

Lomax, Elizabeth Lindsay. Leaves from an Old Washington Diary 1854-1863. 1943

Lunt, Dolly Sumner. The Diary of Dolly Lnt Burge, 1848-1879. 1997

Mackenzie, Muriel D. ed. “Maggie!” Maggie Lindsley’s Journal: Nashville, Tennessee, 1864, Washington, D.C. 1865. 1977

Macsherry, Helen Drury. Pastime: Life and Love on the Homefront During the Civil War, 1861-1865. 2013

Malbuff, David. Miss Priscilla Larkin, Larkinville, Ala: The Civil War Diary of a Southern Bell. Kindle edition, 2021

Marston, Anna Lee, Records of a California Family: Journals and Letters of Lewis C. Gunn and Elizabeth Le Breton Gunn. 1928

Meriwether, Elizabeth Avery. Recollection of 92 years, 1824-1916. 1994

McGuire, Judith W. Diary of a Southern Refugee during the War, by a Lady of Virginia. 1995

Mohr, James C., ed. The Cormany Diaries: A Northern Family in the Civil War. 1982

Moskow, Shirley Blotnick. Emma’s World: An Intimate Look at Lives Touched by the Civil War Era. 1990

Otis, Eliza A.W. and Harrison Gray Otis. Architects of Our Fortunes: The Journal of Eliza A. W. Otis 1860-1863.  2000.

Pember, Phoebe Yates. A Southern Woman’s Story. 2011

Ramey, Emily G. and John K Gott, ed. The Years of Anguish: Fauquier County, virginia, 1861-1865. 1965, reprinted 2008.

Rhodes, Nancy L. Wanted – Correspondence: Women’s Letters to a Union Soldier. 2009

Richards, Caroline Cowles. Village Life in American 1852 to 1872 Including the Period of the American Civil War as Told in the Diary of a School Girl. 2010

Richards, Samuel Pearce, ed and Wendy Hamand Venet, ed. Sam Richards’s Civil War Diary: A Chronicle of the Atlanta Home Front. 2009.

Roberts, Timothy Mason ed. “This Infernal War”: The Civil War Letters of William and Jane Standard. 2018.

Roper, Lucy Booker ed. Our Women in the War: The Lives They Lived, the Deaths They Died, Annotated. Kindle edition, 2012.

Rosengarten, Theodore. Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter: With the Journal of Thomas B. Chaplin (1822-1890). 1992

Rozier, John, ed. The Granite Farm Letters: The Civil War Correspondence of Edgeworth & Sallie Bird. 2012

Russell, Richard. Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journals and Letters of the Henry Family. 2008

Schlissel, Lillian. Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey. 1987

Schultz, Jane E., ed. This Birth Place of Souls: The Civil War Nursing Diary of Harriet Eaton. 2011

Scythes, James M. ed. Letters to Lizzie: The Story of Sixteen Men in the Civil War and the One Woman Who Connected Them All. 2022

Smith, Jerry W. ed. L. Virginia French’s War Journal 1862-1865. 2007

Thomas, Sarah Sites. The Ties of the Past: The Gettysburg Diaries of Salome Myers Stewart 1854-1922. 1996

Whatley, John T. ed. An East Texas Family’s Civil War: The Letters of Nancy & William Whatley, May-December 1862. 2019

Wixson, Neal E., ed. From Civility to Survival: Richmond Ladies During the Civil War. 2012

Young, Carleton. Voices From the Attic: The Williamstown Boys in the Civil War. 2015