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“mary norcott bryan”

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  • A Grandmother's Recollections of Dixie

    by Mary Norcott Bryan ...
    A Grandmother's Recollections of Dixie is the narratives of a North Carolina woman, written after the Civil War. ... Read more

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  • The Second Mrs. Hockaday

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    by Susan Rivers ...
    When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care for her husband’s three-hundred-acre farm and infant son. Placidia, a mere teenager herself living far from her family and completely unprepared to run a farm or raise a child, must endure the darkest days of the war on her own. By the time Major Hockaday returns two years later, Placidia is ... Read more

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  • East of the Sun and West of the Moon

    by Theodore Roosevelt & Kermit Roosevelt ...
    When I was defeated for Governor of New York I got an involuntary holiday, and fortunately my brother Kermit could adjust his affairs and free himself for the coming year. For years he and I had been planning to make an expedition together. Time and again we had to put it off, because when one could go, the other could not. This year conditions shaped themselves to make it possible. There were ... Read more

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  • A Woman's Wartime Journal: An Account Of The Passage Over A Georgia Plantation Of Sherman's Army On The March To The Sea As Recorded In The Diary Of Dolly Sumner Lunt

    by Dolly Sumner Lunt ...
    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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  • How John Wilkes Booth Crossed the Potomac River

    by James L. Barbour ...
    This is the story of how John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, eluded Federal authorities, escaped from Washington DC, hid in southern Maryland and fled to Virginia across the Potomac River via covert Confederate river-crossing operations, as published in CENTURY magazine’s April 1884 edition. The book also describes the Confederate smuggling system to exchange mail with ... Read more

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  • John Wilkes Booth and Robert Lincoln - Rivals in Love?

    by James L. Barbour ...
    Reprinted in its entirety, is the fascinating tale of jealous rivalry for the affections of the beautiful socialite, (Lucy) Bessie Hale — her suitors being none other than John Wilkes Booth and Robert Lincoln, son of President Abraham Lincoln — the date being 1865 in the days leading up to the President’s assassination. The eye-witness account is that of a Mrs. Temple, who lived at the National ... Read more

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  • Three Days on the Ohio River

    by William A. Alcott ...
    William Andrus Alcott (August 6, 1798 – March 29, 1859), also known as William Alexander Alcott, was an American educator, educational reformer, physician, and author of 108 books. His works, which include a wide range of topics including educational reform, physical education, school house design, family life, and diet, are still widely cited today. ... Read more

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  • How Beauty Was Saved and Other Memories of the Sixties

    by Amanda Alcenia Strickland Washington ...
    In the summer of 1862, in the Bayou Manchac country near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, there was a modest little schoolhouse called the "Dove's Nest." To that school came two young girls to complete a course of study begun in Baton Rouge before the Federals captured that city. The country was visited quite often by bands of Confederates, "Jayhawkers,"[1] and Federals; the slaves on the vast sugar ... Read more

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  • The Last Slave-Ship

    by Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers ...
    “Major Byers got trace of the only survivors...in the slave ship (Clotilda)...were personally interviewed by Major Byers.” -Des Moines Register, Jan. 23, 1904How did the survivors of the slave ship Clotilda feel about the African tribe that captured and enslaved them for shipment to the US as slaves?In 1906, Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers (1838-1933) would write a short, 12-page account of his ... Read more

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  • A Woman's Wartime Journal

    An Account of the Passage over Georgia's Plantation of Sherman's Army on the March to the Sea, as Recorded in the Diary of Dolly Sumner Lunt (Mrs. Thomas Burge)

    by Dolly Sumner Lunt ...
    Dolly Sumner Lunt begins her diary, A Woman’s Wartime Journal, published in 1918, by recalling her anxiety about the approach of General Sherman’s Union army on January 1, 1864. While she worries about the arrival of Sherman’s troops and their habit of pillaging and burning everything in their path, she records stories of visits by local raiders posing as U.S. soldiers and the sleepless nights she ... Read more

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  • Wilmington North Carolina During the Blockade.

    by John Johns ...
    A contemporaneous look at life in the city during the blockade. ... Read more

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  • Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War

    by Frances Butler Leigh ...
    "One of the most valuable contributions yet made to our knowledge of the state of the South." - Saturday ReviewFrances Butler Leigh (1838-1910) was the daughter of Pierce Mease Butler and famous English actress Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble, who owned cotton, tobacco and rice plantations on Butler Island, among the largest in Georgia, just south of Darien, Georgia, and the hundreds of slaves who ... Read more

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