Compiled by Vicki Betts
Alabama
Clayton, Victoria Virginia. White and Black Under the Old Regime. Milwaukee: The Young Churchman Co., 1899. Reprint ed. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1970, pp. 100, 113, 117. [near Clayton, AL near Eufala]
Cumming, Kate. Kate: The Journal of a Confederate Nurse. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959, 1987 reprint, pp. 58, 89, 189, 248. [Mobile; between Mobile and Chattanooga]
Fleming, Mary Love Edwards. “Dale County and Its People During the Civil War” Alabama Historical Quarterly 19 (1957): 61-109. (pp. 63, 71-79, 92-93, 98-101)
Fountain, Sarah M., ed. Sisters, Seeds, & Cedars: Rediscovering Nineteenth-Century Life Through Correspondence from Rural Arkansas and Alabama. Conway, AR: UCA Press, 1995, p. 2. [Autauga Co, AL]
Hague, Parthenia Antoinette. A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1888. reprinted. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991, pp. 39-56, 65-72, 80-100, 107-109, 115-117, 137-140. [near Eufala]
Jones, Virginia K., ed. “A Contemporary Account of the Inauguration of Jefferson Davis,” in The Women’s War in the South: Recollections and Reflections of the American Civil War. Edited by Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House, 1999, pp. 27-30. [Montgomery–men’s homespun suits] (p.28)
Mallory, James. “Fear God and Walk Humbly:” The Agricultural Journal of James Mallory, 1843-1877. Edited by Grady McWhiney, Warner O. Moore, Jr., and Robert F. Pace. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997, pp. 313-315, 330. [Talledega] [prices]
Meriwether, Elizabeth Avery. Recollections of 92 Years, 1824-1916. Nashville, TN: The Tennessee Historical Commission, 1958, p. 130. [Tuscaloosa]
Rodgers, Mrs. Cora Williamson. “The Williamson Family of Alabama” in Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War, 1861-’65: Memorial Reminiscences. Little Rock: United Confederate Veterans of Arkansas, 1907. Reprinted. Fayetteville, AR: M & M Press, 1993, pp. 165-168. [AL] [p. 167]
Rogers, William Warren, Jr. Confederate Home Front: Montgomery During the Civil War. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999, p. 73 [homespun suit]
Saxon, Mrs. Elizabeth Lyle. A Southern Woman’s War-Time Reminiscences. Memphis: Pilcher Printing Co., 1905, pp. 18-22. [near Montgomery] http://sunsite.unc.edu/docsouth/saxon/saxon.html
Sterkx, H. E., ed. “A Patriotic Confederate Woman’s War Diary, 1862-1863.” Alabama Historical Quarterly 20 (Winter 1958): 611-617 [near Perote, AL] [pp. 613-614]
Taylor, Grant and Malinda Taylor. This Cruel War: The Civil War Letters of Grant and Malinda Taylor, 1862-1865. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2000, pp. 30, 43, 46, 73, 191, 301[Pickens County]
Willett, Robert L. The Lightning Mule Brigade: Abel Streight’s 1863 Raid into Alabama. Carmel, Indiana: Guild Press, 1999, p. 131. [east of Blountsville]
Arkansas
Bowman, Mary D. “This Unnatural War, 1861-1865: The Diary of John Brown of Camden, Arkansas.” M.A. thesis, Northwestern State College of Louisiana, 1865, p. 84.
Brandenburg, Mrs. Josephine. “Personal Recollections” in Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War, 1861-’65: Memorial Reminiscences. Little Rock: United Confederate Veterans of Arkansas, 1907, Reprint ed. Fayetteville, AR: M & M Press, 1993, pp. 130-132. [near Jacksonport, AR] [p. 131]
Carmack, Mrs. L. J. “Unprinted Arkansas History” in Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War, 1861-’65: Memorial Reminiscences. Little Rock: United Confederate Veterans of Arkansas, 1907, Reprint ed. Fayetteville, AR: M & M Press, 1993, pp. 26-27. [near Fort Smith, AR] [p. 27]
Cleaver, Mrs. Virginia C. “Reminiscences of Mrs. Virginia Cleaver” in Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War, 1861-’65: Memorial Reminiscences. Little Rock: United Confederate Veterans of Arkansas, 1907. Reprint ed. Fayetteville, AR: M & M Press, 1993, pp. 27-33. [near Camden] [p. 29]
Collier, E. E. “Southern Women Walking Fifty Miles to Mill and Carrying Sacks of Meal Back Home” in Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War, 1861-’65: Memorial Reminiscences. Little Rock: United Confederate Veterans of Arkansas, 1907, Reprint ed. Fayetteville, AR: M & M Press, 1993, pp. 52-53. [E. E. Collier currently near Dardanelle] [p.53]
Daniel, Harriet Bailey Bullock. A Remembrance of Eden: Harriet Bailey Bullock Daniel’s Memories of a Frontier Plantation in Arkansas, 1849-1872. Edited by Margaret Jones Bolsterli. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1993, pp. 37, 86, 93, 103. [Dallas Co., AR]
Eason, Mrs. L. A. “When Papa Was Gone to the War” in Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War, 1861-’65: Memorial Reminiscences. Little Rock: United Confederate Veterans of Arkansas, 1907, Reprint ed. Fayetteville, AR: M & M Press, 1993, p. 48. [place not given]
Eno, Clara B. “Activities of the Women of Arkansas During the War Between the States.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 3 (Spring 1944): 5-27. [general]
Fletcher, Mary P., ed. “An Arkansas Lady in the Civil War: Reminiscences of Susan Fletcher.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 2 no. 4 (Dec. 1943): 369-374. [20 miles west of Little Rock]
Fountain, Sarah M., ed. Sisters, Seeds, & Cedars: Rediscovering Nineteenth-Century Life Through Correspondence from Rural Arkansas and Alabama. Conway, AR: UCA Press, 1995, pp. 119, 124-125, 128-129, 136, 140, 143, 146-147, 149, 151, 161. [Ouachita Co., AR]
Hedges, Mrs. Pattie Wright. “How Women Supported the Family” in Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War, 1861-’65: Memorial Reminiscences. Little Rock: United Confederate Veterans of Arkansas, 1907, Reprint ed. Fayetteville, AR: M & M Press, 1993, pp. 57-62. [Union County, AR] [p.60]
Hines, Mrs. M. C. “Recollections of Mrs. M. C. Hines, of Camden,” in Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War, 1861-’65: Memorial Reminiscences. Little Rock: United Confederate Veterans of Arkansas, 1907, Reprint ed. Fayetteville, AR: M & M Press, 1993, pp. 43-44. [Camden] [p. 44]
Hood, Mrs. S. “Prayer of Mrs. Hood Moving Federal Raiders” in Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War, 1861-’65: Memorial Reminiscences. Little Rock: United Confederate Veterans of Arkansas, 1907, Reprint ed. Fayetteville, AR: M & M Press, 1993, pp. 41-42 [Camden] [p. 41]
Livingston, Mrs. M. C. “Weaving Jeans for the Confederates” in Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War, 1861-’65: Memorial Reminiscences. Little Rock: United Confederate Veterans of Arkansas, 1907, Reprint ed. Fayetteville, AR: M & M Press, 1993, pp. 102-104. [no place given] [p. 102-103]
Martin, Mollie D. Martin. “Sketch of Mrs. Jared C. Martin” in Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War, 1861-’65: Memorial Reminiscences. Little Rock: United Confederate Veterans of Arkansas, 1907, Reprint ed. Fayetteville, AR: M & M Press, 1993, pp. 143-145. [near Little Rock, AR]
Mashburn, Mrs. O. M. “A Husband Hanged for His Money” in Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War, 1861-’65: Memorial Reminiscences. Little Rock: United Confederate Veterans of Arkansas, 1907, Reprint ed. Fayetteville, AR: M & M Press, 1993, pp. 181-182. [Saline County, AR] [p. 182]
Mitchell, Mrs. Anna. “Husband Killed at Shiloh” in Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War, 1861-’65: Memorial Reminiscences. Little Rock: United Confederate Veterans of Arkansas, 1907, Reprint ed. Fayetteville, AR: M & M Press, 1993, pp. 100-102. [near Quitman, AR] [p. 101-102]
Stinson, Mrs. G. N. “Work of Camden Women” in Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War, 1861-’65: Memorial Reminiscences. Little Rock: United Confederate Veterans of Arkansas, 1907. Reprint ed. Fayetteville, AR: M & M Press, 1993. pp. 34-37. [Camden] [p. 35]
Weaver, W. J. “A Sketch of Mrs. Sophia Kannady, a Heroine of Fort Smith” in Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War, 1861-’65: Memorial Reminiscences. Little Rock: United Confederate Veterans of Arkansas, 1907, Reprint ed. Fayetteville, AR: M & M Press, 1993, pp. 79-87. [Ft. Smith] [p. 87]
Florida
Blakey, Arch Frederick, Ann Smith Lainhart, and Winston Bryant Stephens, Jr., eds. Rose Cottage Chronicles: Civil War Letters of the Bryant-Stephens Families of North Florida. Gainesville, FL: University of West Florida, 1998, pp. 151, 206, 208, 212, 227-228, 233-234, 236, 242, 251, 258, 261, 279, 294. [north of Lake George and Ft. Gates; near Monticello]
Bradford, Susan. “Many Things are Becoming Scarce” in Heroines of Dixie: The Winter of Desperation. Edited by Katharine M. Jones. New York: Ballantine Books, 1955, pp. 48-49.
Denham, James M. and Canter Brown, Jr., eds. Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives: The Florida Reminiscences of George Gillett Keen and Sarah Pamela Williams. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2000, p. 122 [Lake City, FL].
Eppes, Susan Bradford. Through Some Eventful Years. 1926. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida Press, 1968, pp. 148, 162, 181-2, 205. [near Tallahassee]
Revels, Tracy J. “Grander in Her Daughters: Florida’s Women During the Civil War.” Florida Historical Quarterly 77 no. 3 (Winter 1999): 261-282. [Jackson County, FL] [pp. 271, 275]
Williams, Julieanna. “The Homefront: ‘ For Our Boys—The Ladies’ Aid Society” in Valor and Lace: The Roles of Confederate Women, 1861-1865. Edited by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn. Murfreesboro, TN: Southern Heritage Press, 1996, p. 26. [Leon County]
Georgia
Bonner, James C., ed. “Plantation Experiences of a New York Woman.” The North Carolina Historical Review 33 (Oct. 1956): 384-412, 529-546. [Ware County] [pp. 543-544]
Boykin, Laura Nisbet. Shinplasters and Homespun: The Diary of Laura Nisbet Boykin. Edited by Mary Wright Stock. Rockville, MD: Printex, 1975, pp. 2, 7, 27. [Macon, GA]
Bryant, Jonathan M. How Curious a Land: Conflict and Change in Greene County, Georgia, 1850-1885. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996, pp. 19, 61, 73. [Greene County]
Burge, Dolly Sumner Lunt. Diary. [near Covington, GA] http://history.furman.edu/tactweb/burge.txt
Candler, Myrtie Long. “Reminiscences of Life in Georgia During the 1860s and 1860s: Part III.” Georgia Historical Quarterly 33 no. 3 (September 1949): 218-227.
Chambers, Margaret. “From Margaret Chambers to Elizaeth (“Kizia”) Palmour.” Confederate Reminiscences and Letters, 1861-1865. Vol. VI. Atlanta, GA: United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1997, pp. 192-193.
Clayton, Sarah Conley. Requiem for a Lost City: A Memoir of Civil War Atlanta and the Old South. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1999, pp. 30, 139. [Atlanta]
Coleman, Kenneth. “Mary Ann Cobb in Confederate Athens.” The Georgia Review 22 (1968), pp. 360-369. [Athens, GA] [pp. 361, 367]
Cumming, Kate. Kate: The Journal of a Confederate Nurse. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959, 1987 reprint, pp. 64, 122, 187, 189, 189, 193, 235, 267 [Ringgold, Kingston, Cherokee Springs, Newnan, Macon, Griffin]
Felton, Rebeca Latimer. Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth. Atlanta, GA:Index Printing Co., 1919, pp. 101-102. [Bartow County] http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/felton/felton.html
Fisher, Julia Johnson. Diary, 1864 [typescript], p. 2. [Camden Co. GA] http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/fisherjulia/fisher.html
Hardin, Lizzie. The Private War of Lizzie Hardin. Edited by G. Glenn Clift. Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society, 1963, p. 209 [Ringgold]
Hay, Elzey. “Dress Under Difficulties; or, Passages from the Blockade Experience of Rebel Women.” Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine 73 (July, 1866): 32-37.
“Interesting Reminiscence of the War Between the States.” Confederate Reminiscences and Letters, 1861-1865. Vol. VI. Atlanta: Georgia Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1997, pp. 50-51 [Clarkesville, GA]
James, Mrs. “Women Plowing in the Field,” in Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War, 1861-’65: Memorial Reminiscences. Little Rock: United Confederate Veterans of Arkansas, 1907, Reprint ed. Fayetteville, AR: M & M Press, 1993, pp. 50-51. [Forsythe, GA]
Johnson, Nancy Reeder. “Reminiscences of Nancy A. Reeder (Mrs. D. N.) Johnson.” Confederate Reminiscences and Letters, 1861-1865. Vol. VI. Atlanta: Georgia Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1997, pp. 79-80. [Gwinnett County]
Lamar, Pamela Wragg. “Personal Reminiscences of the War Between the States.” Confederate Reminiscences and Letters, 1861-1865. Vol. VI. Atlanta: Georgia Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1997, pp. 70-76 [Augusta, GA]
Martin, Gussie Rustin. “Reminiscence of the War Between the States.” Confederate Reminiscences and Letters, 1861-1865. Vol. VI. Atlanta: Georgia Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1997, pp. 108-110 [Taylor’s Creek, GA]
Morgan, Julia. “An Invasion of Graybacks” in The War the Women Lived: Female Voices from the Confederate South. Edited by Walter Sullivan. Nashville, J. S. Sanders & Co., 1995, pp. 83-87. [Marietta, GA] [p. 86]
Morgan, Mrs. Irby. How it Was: Four Years Among the Rebels. Nashville: Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1892. http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/morgan/morgan.html [Marietta]
Myers, Robert Manson. The Children of Pride. New abridged ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984, pp. 166, 311, 332, 335, 367, 374, 406, 421, 423-424, 436-437, 450, 458, 459, 461, 495. [Liberty County, GA]
Paschal, George W. Ninety-Four Years: Agnes Paschal. Washington: M’Gill & Witherow, 1871. Reprint ed. Spartanburg, SC: Reprint Co., 1974, pp. 187, 338-339. [Lumpkin Co., GA]
Rockwood, Virginia. “I Wish Gen. Lee Would Kill You” in Yankee Bullets, Rebel Rations: Caught Between Two Armies, Vicksburg Citizens Recall the Horrors of the 1863 Siege. Edited by Gordon A. Cotton. Vicksburg: Office Supply Company, 1989, pp. 51-58. [Rome, GA]
Rozier, John. The Granite Farm Letters: The Civil War Correspondence of Edgeworth & Sallie Bird. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1988, p. 187. [near Sparta]
Skinner, Arthur and James L. Skinner, eds. The Death of a Confederate: Selections from the Letters of the Archibald Smith Family of Roswell, Georgia, 1864-1956. Athens: University of Georgia, 1996, p. 123.
Smedes, Susan Dabney. Memorials of a Southern Planter. Baltimore: Cushings & Bailey, 1888, pp. 216, 222. The Making of America—http://www.umdl.umich.edu/ [Macon, GA]
Smith, Daniel E. Huger, Alice R. Huger Smith, and Arney R. Childs, ed. Mason Smith Family Letters, 1860-1868. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1950, pp. 82-83. [Augusta]
Wiley, Bell Irvin, ed. Letters of Warren Akin, Confederate Congressman. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1959, pp. 127, 137. [Elberton, GA]
Williams, David. Rich Man’s War: Class, Caste, and Confederate Defeat in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1998, 127, 137. [SW GA]
Williams, Julieanna. “The Homefront: ‘For Our Boys—The Ladies’ Aid Societies’” in Valor and Lace: The Roles of Confederate Women, 1861-1865. Edited by Mauriel Phillips Joslyn. Murfreesboro, TN: Southern Heritage Press, 1996, p. 19. [place not given]
Wynne, Lewis N. and Guy Porcher Harison. “‘Plain Folk’ Coping in the Confederacy: The Garrett-Asbell Letters” Georgia Historical Quarterly 72 (1988): 102-118. [Berrien County]
Indian Territory
The Oklahoma Indian-Pioneer Interviews–Mead, Elizabeth Kemp, (3/18/1849-11/5/1939) [Panola County] http://www.novia.net/~vikia/FrancesKemp.html
Louisiana
Garcia, Celine Fremaux. Celine: Remembering Louisiana, 1850-1871. Edited by Patrick J. Geary. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987, pp. 105, 115, 142. [Jackson, LA]
Moore, Dosia Williams. War, Reconstruction and Redemption on Red River: The Memoirs of Dosia Williams Moore. Edited by Carol Wells. Ruston, LA: Louisiana Tech University, 1990, pp. 25-26, 44-46. [near Saline, LA, near Alexandria]
Scarborough, Lucy Paxton. “So It Was When Her Life Began: Reminiscences of a Louisiana Girlhood” Louisiana Historical Quarterly 13 (July 1930): 428-443. [Natchitoches Parish] [p. 431]
Tippit, John Allen. “This is What I Remember . . . “: A Boy’s Life in Louisiana and Texas, 1862-1869: The Reminiscences of John Allen Tippit. Edited by Clifton Caldwell and Mary Crawford. Albany, TX: Clear Fork Press, 1989, pp. 1, 5, 10-11, 15-16, 18, 21-22, 30, 33, 36. [Bienville Parish, near Ringold]
Mississippi
Brunson, Mary. “Federal Raiders of Mississippi” in Confederate Women of Arkansas in the Civil War, 1861-’65: Memorial Reminiscences. Little Rock: United Confederate Veterans of Arkansas, 1907, Reprint ed. Fayetteville, AR: M & M Press, 1993, pp. 154-155. [Byhalia, MS]
Dimond, E. Grey and Herman Hattaway, eds. Letters from Forest Place: A Plantation Family’s Correspondence, 1846-1881. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1993, pp. 172, 186, 202, 210, 297, 303, 305, 322-323. [Winona, MS]
Edmonson, Belle. A Lost Heroine of the Confederacy: The Diaries and Letters of Belle Edmonson. Edited by Loretta and William Galbraith. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990, p. 62. [near Oxford]
Fox, Tryphena Blanche Holder. A Northern Woman in the Plantation South: Letters of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, 1856-1876. Edited by Wilma King. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993, pp. 137, 139, 141. [Kember Co., MS, Monroe Co., MS]
Fulkerson, H. S. A Civilian’s Recollections of the War Between the States. Edited by P. L. Rainwater. Baton Rouge: Otto Claitor, 1939, p. 144. [Vicksburg]
Garner, Helen R. “Personal Reminiscences of the War Times” in War Reminiscences of Columbus, Mississippi and Elsewhere, 1861-1865. Compiled by Columbus Chapter, U.D.C. West Point, MS: Sullivan’s, 1961, p. 15. [Fayette, AL]
Harper, Annie. Annie Harper’s Journal: A Southern Mother’s Legacy. Corinth, MS: The General Store, 1992, pp. 12, 14, 23, 28, 29.
“Journal of the War” DeBow’s Review 3 no. 1 (January 1867), pp. 95-108. [Vicksburg, March 28, 1863] [p. 104]
Olmsted, Frederick Law. A Journey in the Back Country. New York: Mason Brothers, 1860. Reprint ed. New York: Schocken Books, 1970, pp. 140-141, 220, 231. [east of Vicksburg toward Tuscaloosa] [pre-war]
Seabury, Caroline. The Diary of Caroline Seabury, 1854-1863. Edited by Suzanne L. Bunkers. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. [between Chickasaw and Panola]
Young, Georgia P. “The Yankees are Coming.” War Reminiscences of Columbus, Mississippi and Elsewhere, 1861-1865. Compiled by Columbus Chapter, U.D.C. West Point, MS: Sullivan’s, 1961, pp. 10-11.
North Carolina
Brown, Louis A. “The Correspondence of David Olando McRaven and Amanda Nantz McRaven, 1864-1865.” North Carolina Historical Review 26 (Jan. 1949): 41-98. [p.62, 79, 82, 85, 89, 96] [Mecklenburg County]
Bryan, Mary Norcott. A Grandmother’s Recollection of Dixie. New Bern, NC: Owen G. Dunn, Printer, [1912], p. 27 [near Raleigh] http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/bryan/bryan.html
Casstevens, Frances H. The Civil War and Yadkin County, North Carolina: A History. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1997, pp. 13, 62.
Chamberlain, Hope Summerell. Old Days in Chapel Hill, being the Life and Letters of Cornelia Phillips Spencer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1926, p. 81.
Eanes, Ellen Fickling, et al. North Carolina Quilts. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988, pp. 4, 12-13. [Macon County, NC; Greensboro NC]
Edmondston, Catherine Ann Devereux. “Journal of a Secesh Lady”: The Diary of Catherine Ann Devereux Edmonston, 1860-1866. Edited by Beth G. Crabtree and James W. Patton. Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, 1979, pp. 338, 502, 654. [Halifax Co, NC]
“Hyde Folks [Hyde County, NC] Had War Troubles 91 Years Ago: Old Letter Comes to Light Telling of Days When Fighting Came to County” Source: Hyde County Herald, January, 1953. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nchyde/letter6.htm
Inscoe, John C. “Coping in Confederate Appalachia: Portrait of a Mountain Woman and Her Community at War,” in The Women’s War in the South: Recollections and Reflections of the American Civil War, edited by Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House, 1999, pp. 313-334. [Macon Co, NC] [p. 318, 328]
South Carolina
Albergotti, Mrs. T. C. “Extracts From a Paper by Mrs. T. C. Albergotti, of Orangeburg, S. C.,” in South Carolina Women in the Confederacy. vol. 2. Columbia, SC: The State Company, 1907, pp. 36-37. [Orangeburg]
Babcock, Eugenia C. “Personal Recollections of the War Between the States” in South Carolina Women in the Confederacy. vol. 2. Columbia, SC: The State Company, 1907, pp. 134-147 [Chester, SC] [p.139]
Baker, Mrs. Ida. [At Christmas Times], WPA interview, November 10, 1937. American Memory. http://lcweb2.loc.gov [Union, SC]
Brown, Mary. “Woman’s Work in Anderson” in South Carolina Women in the Confederacy. vol. 2. Columbia: The State Company, 1907, p. 50. [Anderson, SC]
Clay-Clopton, Virginia. A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama. New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co., 1905. Reprint ed. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999, p.223 [Aiken District].
Clemson, Floride. A Rebel Came Home: The Diary and Letters of Floride Clemson, 1863-1866. Edited by Charles M. McGee, Jr. and Ernest M. Lander, Jr. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1989, p. 74. [on the South Carolina trains]
Gilman, Carolina H. “Letters of a Confederate Mother: Charleston in the Sixties” in The Women’s War in the South: Recollections and Reflections of the American Civil War. Edited by Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House, 1999, pp. 133-150. [Greenville] [p.144]
Heyward, Pauline DeCaradeuc. A Confederate Lady Comes of Age: The Journal of Pauline DeCaradeuc Heyward, 1863-1888. Edited by Mary D. Robertson. University of South Carolina Press, 1992, p. 28. [Charleston]
Jeffries, Mrs. William. “Extract from a Paper by Mrs. William Jeffries, of Cherokee County, S.C., as a Member of John Hames Chapter, Jonesville, S.C.” in South Carolina Women in the Confederacy. vol. 2. Columbia, SC: The State Company, 1907, pp. 35-36. [Cherokee County]
LeConte, Emma. When the World Ended: The Diary of Emma LeConte. Edited by Earl Schenck Miers. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987, p. 16. [Columbia] Lipscomb, Mrs. Wary [Mary?]. “Civil War Women.” Interviewer: Caldwell Sims, Union SC. [Gaffney,SC] http://californiacentralcoast.com/commun/map/civil/women/n1.html.
Millings, Ella. “The Women of Vances” in South Carolina Women in the Confederacy. vol. 2. Columbia, SC: The State Company, 1907, pp. 38-39.
Patterson, Mrs. Addie. WPA interview, June 28, 1938. American Memory. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ [Hampton County]
Pringle, Elizabeth W. Allston. Chronicles of Chicora Wood. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1922. Reprint ed. Boston: The Christopher Publishing House, 1940, p. 195. [Society Hill]
Rutledge, David J., ed. “Elizabeth Jamison’s Tale of the War.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 99 no. 4 (October 1998): 312-339. [Barnwell District] [p.319]
Smith, Daniel E. Huger, Alice R. Huger Smith, and Arney R. Childs, ed. Mason Smith Family Letters, 1860-1868. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1950, p. 27. [Charleston]
“Some War-Time Incidents of Sumter County, S.C.” in South Carolina Women in the Confederacy. vol. 2. Columbia, SC: The State Company, 1907, pp. 172-176. [Sumter County]
Tennessee
Burday, Ruth. “Boundaries and Barriers: Myra Inman and Her Journal, 1859-1866.” M.A. thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995, pp. 16-17. [Cleveland, TN]
Cumming, Kate. Kate: The Journal of a Confederate Nurse. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959, 1987 reprint, p. 82. [Chattanooga, TN]
Dimitry, Adelaide Stuart. War-Time Sketches Historical and Otherwise. New Orleans: Louisiana Printing Co. Press, [1911], pp. 42-43, 72. [Memphis, TN] http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/dimitry/dimitry.html
Hill, Sarah Jane Full. Mrs. Hill’s Journal—Civil War Reminiscences. Edited by Mark M. Krug. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1980, p. 242. [near Waverly]
Hyatt, Rebecca Dougherty. “Marthy Lou’s Kiverlid”: A Sketch of Mountain Life. Morristown, TN: Triangle Press, 1937, pp. 24, 56-58, 112-114. [East Tennessee]
Irwin, John Rice. A People and Their Quilts. Exton, PA: Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1984, pp. 13, 19. [White County, TN]
Lohrenz, Mary. “Two Lives Intertwined on a Tennessee Plantation: Textile Production as Recorded in the Diary of Narcissa L. Erwin Black” Southern Quarterly 28 (Fall 1988): 73-93. [McNairy Co., TN] [pp. 74, 76-80.]
Nason, W. A. With the Ninth Army Corps in East Tennessee. Providence: Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society, 1891, pp. 38, 43, 58. [around Knoxville]
Trowbridge, J. T. The South: A Tour of Its Battle-Fields and Ruined Cities, a Journey Through the Desolated States, and Talks With the People . . . Hartford, CT: L. Stebbins, 1866, pp. 243, 260. Making of America, http://222.umdl.umich.edu/ [East Tennessee]
Texas
Baker, T. Lindsay and Julie P. Baker, eds. Till Freedom Cried Out: Memories of Texas Slave Life. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997. pp. 5, 31, 52, 73-74, 100, 107, 113. [various locations]
Beck, Mrs. Henry Harrison (Fannie Davis Veale). On the Texas Frontier: Autobiography of a Texas Pioneer. St. Louis: Britt Printing and Publishing Company, 1937, pp. 27-28, 49, 96-97. [San Saba]
Bryan, Jimmy L., Jr., ed. “‘Whip Them Like the Mischief:’ The Civil War Letters of Frank and Mintie Price.” Edited by Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr. East Texas Historical Journal 36 no. 2 (1998), 68-84. [San Augustine] [p. 71]
Byson, Mary. “Sister Susan Has Lost Three Sons” in Heroines of Dixie: The Winter of Desperation. Edited by Katharine M. Jones. New York: Ballantine Books, 1955, pp. 69-70. [Red River County]
Campbell, Randolph B. A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850-1880. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1983.
Cheek, Tolbert Fanning and Mary Cheek. “T. F. Cheek Letters.” Confederate Reminiscences and Letters, 1861-1865. v.2 Atlanta: Georgia Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1996, pp. 139-144. [Weatherford, TX] [p. 140, 142, 144]
Donoho, Olive. “Margaret O’Bryant Thompson (1822-1895)” in Women in Early Texas. Edited by Evelyn M. Carrington. Austin: Jenkins Publ Co., 1975. Reprint ed. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1994, pp. 255-257. [what is now Uvalde County]
Embree, Tennie Key. Diary. Box 2Q504, University of Texas at Austin Archives. Typescript [Bosqueville]
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