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Anderson, John Q. Brokenburn: the Journal of Kate Stone 1861-1868. 1955

Baker, Lindsey T & Julie P Baker. Till Freedom Cried Out: Memories of Texas Slave Life. 1997

Barr, Amelia E. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography. D. Appleton and Company, 1913

Bradly Civil War Letters: Grayson County, Texas 1862-1865

Braley Letters

Britton, David, ed. "Reminiscences and Civil War Letters of Levi Lamoni Wight". 1986. Ph.D. dissertation, Texas Tech.

Broughton, Edward Thomas. Letters

Bryan Jr., Jimmy L. “Whip Them Like the Mischief': The Civil War Letters of Frank and Mintie Price". East Texas Historical Journal vol XXXVI N. 2 1998

Cheeseman, Bruce S. Maria von Blucher's Corpus Christi: Letters from the South Texas Frontier 1849-1879. 2002

Coleman Papers. Chronological Transcriptions. Baylor Texas Collection.

Eliot, Jacob. Journal.

Erath, Lucy E. "Memoirs of George Bernard Erath", Begins in Volume 26, Number 2,  and continues through Volume 27, Number 2, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online

Exley, Jo Ella Powell. Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine. 1985

Floyd, Frances "Fannie" Patience .  Letters

Freemantle, Lt. Col. Arthur J.L. Three Months in the Southern States: April –June 1863. 1991

Gallaway, B.P. Texas the Dark Corner of the Confederacy: Contemporary Accounts of the Lone Star State in the Civil War. 1994.

Goyne, Minetta Altegelt. Lone Star and Double Eagle: Civil War Letters of a German-Texas Family. 1982

Hoffman, David R., ed. A German-American Pioneer Remembers: August Hoffmann's Memoir". Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 102, No. 4, April 1999, page 487

Hull, James Henry Lauriston.  Letters

Hunt, W.R. Recalls Frontier Life On Her 91st Birthday," San Marcos (TX) Record, May 10, 1940. Transcription of the Julia DeSteiguer Reminiscence. Transcribed By:  Alfrieda Brummitt

Johansson, M. Jane, ed. Widows by the Thousands: The Civil War Letters of Theophilus and Harriet Perry, 1862-1864. 2000

Jordan-Bychkov, Terry, G. et al, ed. "The Boesel Letters: Two Germans in Sibley's Brigade". Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 102, No. 4, April 1999, page 457

Kemp, L.W., editor. "Early Days in Milam County: Reminiscences of Susan Turnham McCown", Volume 50, Number 3, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online

King, Kittie. Letter, Fort Worth, July 1, 1860.

King, C. Richard, editor. Victorian Lady on the Texas Frontier: The Journal of Ann Raney Coleman. 1986

 Lincecum, Jerry Bryan. Gideon Lincecum's Sword: Civil War Letters from the Texas Home Front. 2001

Marks, Paula Mitchell. When Will the Weary War by Over? The Civil War Letters of the Maverick Family of San Antonio. Book Club of Texas, 2008.

Marten, James, Ed. "The Diary of Thomas H. DuVal: The Civil War in Austin, Texas, February 26 to October 9, 1863". Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 94, No. 3, January 1991, page 435

Maverick, Mary. Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick: A Journal of Early Texas. Alamo Printing Co. 1921, reprint Maverick Publishing Company, 2005.

McNeill, Sally. The Uncompromising Diary of Sallie McNeill: 1858-1867.2009

Mills, W.W. Forty Years at El Paso, 1858-1898; Recollections of War, Politics, Adventure, Events, Narratives, Sketches, Etc. 1901.

Murr, Erika L. A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett 1852-1864. 2001

North, Thomas. Five Years in Texas: or, What You Did Not Hear During the War from January 1861 to January 1866. A Narrative of His Travels, Experiences and Observations, in Texas and Mexico: 1871

O' Connor, Mrs. T.P. My Beloved South. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1915.

Olmsted, Frederick Law. A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier. (latest edition, 2004)

Phelps, Ellen P. Diary, June 17, 1861April 15, 1862, collection of the Texas State Archives, as transcribed by Vicki Betts

Rabb, J. W.“Civil War Letters.”

Ragsdale, Crystal Sasse. The Golden Free Land: The Reminiscences and Letters of Women on an American Frontier. 1976

Rugeley, H.J.H. Batchelor-Turner Letters 1861-1864: Written by Two of Terry's Texas Rangers. 1961

Smithwick, Noah. The Evolution of a State or Recollections of Old Texas Days. Gammel: Austin, 1900.

Tylor, Ron, & Lawrence R Murphy. The Slave Narratives of Texas. 1997

Thompson, Jerry. Civil War in the Southwest: Recollections of the Sibley Brigade. 2001

Trammell, Camilla Davis. Seven Pines: Its Occupants and Their Letters, 1825-1872. 1986

Von Rosenberg, Charles W. Ancestral Voices: The Letters of the Von Rosenberg and Meerscheidt Families (1844-1897).  no date

Ward, Andrew. The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008

Watson, Henry and John Lindsey.  Letters

Williams, Edward. Rebel Brothers: The Civil War Letters of the Truehearts. Texas A&M University Press, 1995

Withers, Anita Dwyer. Diary 1860-1865

Wright, Louise Wigfall.  A Southern Girl in '61: The War-Time Memories of a Confederate Senator's Daughter. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905

Wurster, Ilse. Die Kettner Briefe, the Kettner Letters: A Firsthand Account of a German Immigrant in the Texas Hill Country (1850-1875). Comanche Creek Press, 2008.

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