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Introduction | |
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Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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A Note on the Text | |
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Mary Chesnut's Diary | |
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Charleston, S. C., November 8, 1860-December 27, 1860. | |
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The news of Lincoln's election | |
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Raising the Palmetto flag | |
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The author's husband resigns as United States Senator | |
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The Ordinance of Secession | |
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Anderson takes possession of Fort Sumter | |
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Montgomery, Ala., February 19, 1861-March 11, 1861. | |
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Making the Confederate Constitution | |
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Robert Toombs | |
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Anecdote of General Scott | |
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Lincoln's trip through Baltimore | |
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Howell Cobb and Benjamin H. Hill | |
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Hoisting the Confederate flag | |
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Mrs. Lincoln's economy in the White House | |
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Hopes for peace | |
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Despondent talk with anti-secession leaders | |
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The South unprepared | |
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Fort Sumter | |
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Charleston, S. C., March 26, 1861-April 15, 1861. | |
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A soft-hearted slave-owner | |
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Social gaiety in the midst of war talk | |
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Beauregard a hero and a demigod | |
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The first shot of the war | |
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Anderson refuses to capitulate | |
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The bombardment of Fort Sumter as seen from the housetops | |
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War steamers arrive in Charleston harbor | |
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�Bull Run� Russell | |
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Demeanor of the negroes | |
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Camden, S. C., April 20, 1861-April 22, 1861. | |
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After Sumter was taken | |
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the jeunesse dor�e | |
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The story of Beaufort Watts | |
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Maria Whitaker's twins | |
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The inconsistencies of life | |
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Montgomery, Ala., April 27, 1861-May 20, 1861. | |
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Baltimore in a blaze | |
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Anderson's account of the surrender of Fort Sumter | |
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A talk with Alexander H. Stephens | |
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Reports from Washington | |
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An unexpected reception | |
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Southern leaders take hopeless views of the future | |
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Planning war measures | |
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Removal of the capital | |
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Charleston, S. C, May 25, 1861-June 24, 1861. | |
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Waiting for a battle in Virginia | |
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Ellsworth at Alexandria | |
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Big Bethel | |
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Moving forward to the battleground | |
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Mr. Petigru against secession | |
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Mr. Chesnut goes to the front | |
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Russell's letters to the London Times | |
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Richmond, Va., June 27, 1861-July 4, 1861. | |
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Arrival at the new capital | |
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Criticism of Jefferson Davis | |
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Soldiers everywhere | |
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Mrs. Davis's drawing-room | |
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A day at the Champ de Mars | |
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The armies assembling for Bull Run | |
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Col. L. Q. C. Lamar | |
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Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, Va., July 6, 1681-July 11, 1861. | |
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Cars crowded with soldiers | |
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A Yankee spy | |
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Anecdotes of Lincoln | |
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Gaiety in social life | |
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Listening for guns | |
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A horse for Beauregard | |
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Richmond, Va., July 13, 1861-September 2, 1861. | |
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General Lee and Joe Johnston | |
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The battle of Bull Run | |
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Colonel Bartow's death | |
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Rejoicings and funerals | |
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Anecdotes of the battle | |
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An interview | |
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Treatment of prisoners | |
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Toombs thrown from his horse | |
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Criticism of the Administration | |
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Paying the soldiers | |
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Suspected women searched | |
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Mason and Slidell | |
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Camden, S. C., September 9, 1861-September 19, 1861. | |
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The author's sister, Kate Williams | |
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Old Colonel Chesnut | |
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Roanoke Island surrenders | |
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Up Country and Low Country | |
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Family silver to be taken for war expenses | |
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Mary McDuffie Hampton | |
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The Merrimac and the Monitor | |
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Columbia, S. C., February 20, 1862-July 21, 1862. | |
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Dissensions among Southern leaders | |
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Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
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Conscription begins | |
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Abuse of Jefferson Davis | |
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The battle of Shiloh | |
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Beauregard flanked at Nashville | |
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Old Colonel Chesnut again | |
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New Orleans lost | |
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The battle of Williamsburg | |
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Dinners, teas, and breakfasts | |
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Wade Hampton at home wounded | |
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Battle of the Chickahominy | |
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Albert Sidney Johnston's death | |
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Richmond in sore straits | |
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A wedding and its tragic ending | |
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Malvern Hill | |
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Recognition of the Confederacy in Europe | |
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Flat Rock, N. C., August 1, 1862 August 8, 1862. | |
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A mountain summer resort | |
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George Cuthbert | |
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A disappointed cavalier | |
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Antietam and Chancellorsville | |
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General Chesnut's work for the army | |
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Portland, Ala, July 8, 1863-July 30, 1863. | |
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A journey from Columbia to Southern Alabama | |
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The surrender of Vicksburg | |
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A terrible night in a swamp on a riverside | |
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A good pair of shoes | |
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The author at her mother's home | |
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Anecdotes of negroes | |
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A Federal Cynic | |
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Richmond, Va., August 10, 1863-September 7, 1863. | |
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General Hood in Richmond | |
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A brigade marches through the town | |
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Rags and tatters | |
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Two love affairs and a wedding | |
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The battle of Brandy Station | |
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The Robert Barnwell tragedy | |
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Camden, S. C., September 10, 1863-November 5, 1863. | |
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A bride's dressing-table | |
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Home once more at Mulberry | |
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Longstreet's army seen going West | |
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Constance and Hetty Cary | |
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At church during Stoneman's raid | |
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Richmond narrowly escapes capture | |
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A battle on the Chickahominy | |
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A picnic at Mulberry | |
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Richmond, Va., November 28, 1863-April 11, 1864. | |
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Mr. Davis visits Charleston | |
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Adventures by rail | |
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A winter of mad gaiety | |
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Weddings, dinner-parties, and private theatricals | |
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Battles around Chattanooga | |
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Bragg in disfavor | |
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General Hood and his love affairs | |
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Some Kentucky generals | |
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Burton Harrison and Miss Constance Cary | |
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George Eliot | |
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Thackeray's death | |
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Mrs. R. E. Lee and her daughters | |
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Richmond almost lost | |
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Colonel Dahlgren's death | |
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General Grant | |
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Depreciated currency | |
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Fourteen generals at church | |
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Camden, S. C., May 8, 1864-June 1, 1864. | |
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A farewell to Richmond | |
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�Little Joe's� pathetic death and funeral | |
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An old silk dress | |
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The battle of the Wilderness | |
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Spottsylvania Court House | |
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At Mulberry once more | |
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Old Colonel Chesnut's grief at his wife's death | |
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Columbia, S. C., July 6, 1864-January 17, 1865. | |
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Gen. Joe Johnston superseded and the Alabama sunk | |
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The author's new home | |
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Sherman at Atlanta | |
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The battle of Mobile Bay | |
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At the hospital in Columbia | |
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Wade Hampton's two sons shot | |
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Hood crushed at Nashville | |
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Farewell to Mulberry | |
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Sherman's advance eastward | |
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The end near | |
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Lincolnton, N. C., February 16, 1865,-March 15, 1865. | |
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The flight from Columbia | |
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A corps of generals without troops | |
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Broken-hearted and an exile | |
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Taken for millionaires | |
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A walk with Gen | |
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The burning of Columbia | |
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Confederate money refused in the shops | |
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Selling old clothes to obtain food | |
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Gen. Joe Johnston and President Davis again | |
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Braving it out | |
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Mulberry saved by a faithful negro | |
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Ordered to Chester, S. C. | |
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Chester, S. C., March 21, 1865-May 1, 1865. | |
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How to live without money | |
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Keeping house once more | |
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Other refugees tell stories of their flight | |
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The Hood melodrama over | |
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The exodus from Richmond | |
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Passengers in a box car | |
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A visit from General Hood | |
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The fall of Richmond | |
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Lee's surrender | |
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Yankees hovering around | |
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In pursuit of President Davis | |
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Camden, S. C., May 2, 1865-August 2, 1865. | |
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Once more at Bloomsbury | |
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Surprising fidelity of negroes | |
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Stories of escape | |
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Federal soldiers who plundered old estates | |
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Mulberry partly in ruins | |
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Old Colonel Chesnut last of the grand seigniors | |
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Two classes of sufferers | |
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A wedding and a funeral | |
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Blood not shed in vain | |