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CIV090  A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky. The Diary of Frances Peter  
 ed J.D. Smith & W. Cooper Jr.
Her candid diary chronicles Kentucky's invasion by Confederate forces under Gen. Braxton Bragg in 1862.  Hardcover. 222 pp.  

CIV115  Heritage of Woe.  The Civil War Diary of Grace Brown Elmore.  1861-68
 ed by Marli Weiner
  One of eight children born to a wealthy and influential Columbia, South Carolina family, Elmore began her diary just five months into the Civil War when she was twenty-two.  Despite her early optimism and enduring devotion the the Confederacy, she found that the war eroded all stability and certainty from her life.  Her details of the transition to peace and the harsh economic realities of Reconstruction relate her work as a teacher and also provide a wealth of material on southern racial attitudes.  Hardcover.  225 pp.  

CIV072...... Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South.  B. Wyatt-Brown
The author's reexamination of pre-CW Southern culture demonstrates the pervasiveness of the age-old code of honor in many aspects of human relations, from child-rearing habits to criminal justice and lynch law.  The author shows that honor was the animating force in the antebellum South, the very keystone of the slave-holding Southern morality.  Paper.  597 pp.
 

CIV078  'Ware Sherman. A Journal of Three Months Personal Experience in the Last Days of the Confederacy. 
Joseph LeConte with an Introductory Reminscence by His Daughter Caroline LeConte.
Leconte was a consulting chemist in the Confederate States  Mining Bureau.   Paper. 184 pp.  
  
 

CIV114 The Granite Farm Letters.  The Civil War Correspondence of Edgeworth and Sallie Bird.
 ed by J. Rozier
 The letters of the Bird Family span the length of the Civil War -- from the feverish summer days of 1861, when Georgia troops left for Virginia, to the quiet resumption of peace following Appomattox.

CIV119 Between North and South.  The Letters of Emily Wharton Sinkler 1841 - 1865.
 ed by A. LeClercq
 Emily was only eighteen years old when she began to write to distant relatives, chronicling her experiences on an antebellum cotton plantation.   Born to a Philadelphia family she married  Charles Sinkler of St. Johns Berkeley Parish and Charleston, South Carolina, and moved south to begin a new life.  She relates tales of colorful characters and events.  Hardcover  365 pp. 

CIV086 Too Afraid to Cry.  Maryland Civilians in the Antietam Campaign.
K.A. Ernst.
This book accurately portrays the experiences of Unionist and secessionist citizens throughout the 1862 Maryland campaign. 

CIV087   North Across the River. A Civil War Trail of Tears.    R. B. Cook
  The Story of the Roswell Mill Workers who were shipped North when Sherman burned down the mill.  

ALI002   Confederate Home Front.  Montgomery During the Civil War.
 W. W. Rogers, Jr.
 Examines the lives of civilians living in Montgomery, Alabama

CIV077  Requiem For A Lost City.  Sallie Clayton's Memoirs of Civil War Atlanta
Robert S. Davis, Jr.

CIV011  Mothers of Invention.  Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
D. G. Faust

CIV055  The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl  1864-1865
Eliza Franes Andrews

CIV047P  Lucy Breckenridge of Grove Hill.  The Journal of a Virginia Girl 1862-64
Mary D. Robertson

CIV040  The Light of Other Days
Caroline Couper Lovell

CIV024  Mary Chesnut's Civil War

FEM032  The Private Mary Chesnut.  The Unpublished Civil War Diaries.

  

CIV037  "Fear God & Walk Humbly" The Agricultural Journal of James Mallory, 1843-1877
ed by McWhiney, Morre, Pace 

CIV034  A Northern Woman in the Plantation South:  Letters of Tryphena Blanche Holder Fox, 1856-1876
ed by W. King-Hunter

CIV016  A Very Violent Rebel. The Civil War Diary of Ellen Renshaw House
ed by D. E. Sutherland

FEM030   Civil War Diary of Sarah Morgan.    ed by C. East
 A twenty-year-old's record of the dangers and privations of the war.

CIV014   North Carolina Yeoman.  The Diary of Basil Armstrong Thomasson, 1853-62    ed by P. D. Escott
 A look at the world of a non-slaveholding small Southern farmer.

CIV018   Sisters, Seeds & Cedars. Rediscovering Nineteenth-Century Life Through Correspondence from Rural Arkansas and Alabama.    ed by S. M. Fountain
Family life and relationships spanning three generations.

CIV005   Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War, by a Lady of Virginia.
Judith W. McGuire
 The diary of the wife of an Episcopal minister in Civil War Richmond.

CONF016   When the Yankees Came.  Conflict & Chaos in the Occupied South, 1861-65
Stephen Ash
 A wealth of information on the Southern Home Front.