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Autobiographies and Memoirs
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| Title/Author | Description |
| The Valley Campaigns by Thomas Almond Ashby |
The author was a boy of twelve when the war started. His home was in the Shenandoah Valley. He witnessed many of the events that are associated with that region, both the battles and the wanton destruction directed against the civil population by the Union strategy. Ashby credits the bonds of mutual loyalty between the slaves and their masters with allowing the white menfolk to go to war while leaving their families and land in the trustworthy hands of their servants. |
| Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison Volume 1 by Belle Boyd |
Belle Boyd was a very active and effective spy for the Confederacy. She risked her life many times to bring important intelligence to General Stonewall Jackson and other leaders. |
| Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison Volume 2 by Belle Boyd |
Belle Boyd recounts many events from her adventurous life. She had repeated narrow escapes from both rifle fire and the hangman's noose. She wrote her autobiography as an exile in England. |
| My Escape from Slavery by Frederick Douglass |
Frederick Douglass was a very popular and influential speaker. He provided impetus to the abolitionist movement. Born a slave, in 1838 Douglas escaped to Massachusetts where he was influenced by William Lloyd Garrison to become active in the anti-slavery cause. |
| Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American
Slave by Frederick Douglass |
Frederick Douglass was a very popular and influential speaker. He provided impetus to the abolitionist movement. Born a slave, in 1838 Douglas escaped to Massachusetts where he was influenced by William Lloyd Garrison to become active in the anti-slavery cause. |
| Personal Memoirs, Volume 1 by U.S. Grant |
President Grant's autobiography written shortly before his death. West Point, the Mexican War, and the beginning of the American Civil War are described from the perspective of an active participant and history maker. |
| Personal Memoirs, Volume 2 by U.S. Grant |
Grant continues and concludes with the last part of the Civil War. An appendix gives his official reports to the War Department during the conflict. |
| A Boy's Experience in the Civil War by Thomas Hughes |
Thomas Hughes was twelve years old when the war started. His father was a prominent Richmond physician, whose patients included the Lees and the Davises. Many famous military figures and politicians are described from first-hand observation. He was sixteen and a cadet at VMI when he witnessed the entrance into Richmond of the victorious Union army. |
| The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby by John Singleton Mosby |
John S. Mosby was one of the most colorful figures of the war. Well educated, but untrained militarily, he left his law practice to enlist as a private in the Confederate army, where he discovered his true talent. He played a key role in Stuart's famous ride around the Union army. As an exhanged prisoner of war he brought back information to Lee that led to the defeat of Pope. Finally, as a partisan, or guerilla commander, his daring exploits brought him international fame while interrupting Union supply lines and keeping thousands of Yankee soldiers occupied in that part of Virginia known as "Mosby's Confederacy." |
| Personal Memoirs: Volume 1 of 2 by Gen.Philip H. Sheridan, USA |
In this volume Sheridan describes his childhood, his experiences at West Point, his role in the Mexican War, and the first half of the Civil War. |
| Personal Memoirs: Volume 2 of 2 by Gen.Philip H. Sheridan, USA |
Sheridan describes his contest with Confederate Gen. Early for the Shenandoah Valley, fighting Stuart at Yellow Tavern, and the Civil War to its conclusion. He then played a part in governing the South as a Reconstruction official, and as an Indian fighter on the western frontiers. He concludes with comments on the Franco-Prussian War, which he observed as a guest of Bismark. |
| Morgan's Men, A Narrative of Personal Experience by Henry Lane Stone |
In this short work, originally given as a speech, the author recounts some of his personal experiences serving under the famous Confederate raider, General John Hunt Morgan. Stone's adventures include being captured twice and escaping twice from Yankee prisons, fleeing into Canada, and returning to the Confederacy to fight again. |
| Destruction and Reconstruction by Gen. Richard Taylor, CSA |
In recounting his personal experiences, General Taylor produced a masterful history of the war, with special attention to the often neglected western theatre. Taylor first served under Stonewall Jackson, whose methods he later adapted in defeating Banks in his Red River Campaign. A brilliant commander and an astute observer, Taylor's severe judgments of high officers, North and South, and his comments about Reconstruction are particularly valuable. |
| The War - 'Stonewall' Jackson, His Campaigns and Battles by James H. Wood |
Memoirs of the Captain of Company "D," 37th Virginia Infantry Regiment. Wood was a cadet at the Virginia Military Institue at Lexington where he saw the war's approach transform the mild mannered Professor Jackson into a fiery warrior admonishing the cadets to prepare to "draw the sword and throw away the scabbard!" |
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