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 La Belle Rebelle by Belle Boyd Hardinge. $24.15 hardcover/1.25 in PDF. "WILL you take my life?" This was the somewhat startling question put to me by Mrs. Hardinge - better known as Belle Boyd - on my recent introduction to her in Jermyn Street. "Madam," said I, "a sprite like you, who has so often run the gauntlet by sea and land, who has had so many hair-breadth escapes by flood and field, must bear a 'charmed life:' I dare not attempt it." Then, placing in my hands a roll of manuscript, she said, "Take this; read it, revise it, rewrite it, publish it, or burn it - do what you will. It is the story of my adventures, misfortunes, imprisonments, and persecutions. I have written all from memory since I have been here in London; and, perhaps, by putting me in the third person you can make a book that will be not only acceptable to the public and profitable to myself, but one that will do some good to the cause of my poor country, a cause which seems to be so little understood in England." -- From the Introduction. This book tells the story of a true daughter of the South. A woman who often risked life and limb to be of service to her country. In the process, she even became a friend of Gen. Stonewall Jackson. An interesting read, to be sure.  The Memoirs of John S. Mosby $24.33 hardcover/1.25 in PDF. John Singleton Mosby, Colonel of Partisan Rangers, was known as The Grey Ghost, for his ability to seemingly disappear with his whole command into the mists. He "haunted" the Union Army in his area of operations by raiding, scouting, disrupting supply and communication lines, and harassing the enemy. Those who loved him, loved him a lot and those who hated him, hated him a lot. This is the memoirs he left for posterity.  A Girl's Life In Virginia Before The War by Letitia M. Burwell. $22.23, hardcover/1.25 in PDF. Letitia Burwell demonstrates that the stereotypes of Southron planters being abusive human rights violators and hateful racists is just not true. While no one I know today would say that slavery is good, the truth demands that both sides of a story get a fair hearing and this side will dispel Uncle Tom's Cabin with ease. Ms. Burwell also gives us an excellent glimpse into the social and family dynamics of everyday Southron life in the ante-bellum South.  The Woman In Battle by Loreta Janetta Velazquez. $17.00, softcover/1.25 in PDF. Loreta Velazquez, a.k.a. Lt. Harry T. Buford, CSA was a woman who impersonated a man in order to fight for the South. She had many reasons: to be close to her husband, a regimental surgeon; to serve her country; to live out a dream of being another St. Joan of Arc. Her story is pure adventure and even a little "racy" at points. But the best part is it's all true!  Forget-Me-Nots of the Civil War $14.70 softcover/1.25 in PDF. Though billed by the authoress as a "romance," this book has nothing whatever to do with that poor class of literature. This is a memoir of the authoress' family's experiences during the War Between the States. It contains an extensive selection of letters written home by two of the family's young men - some of them from Point Lookout Prison. There is even an episode in which the authoress meets the war criminal William Sherman during his infamous destruction of the South.  A Virginia Girl in the Civil War 1861-1865 $14.10 softcover/1.25 in PDF The memoirs of Myrta Lockett Avary, native Virginian and wife of a Confederate officer. He we gain a glimpse of life at home during the war with its joys and triumphs, fears and trials.  My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington $23.59 hardcover/1.25 in PDF. "Rebel Rose" Greenhow -- the name conjures up many different images. She was most famous as a spy for the Confederates and was so good at it that she even got information from her prison guards and sent it out to the Confederate Government in the clothing of her visitors! But she was so much more. She was a true heroine of the Southland, an emissary of the Confederate Government to Great Britain and even an authoress. An invaluable reference to the early part of the War Between the States.  Destruction and Reconstruction $14.64 in softcover/1.25 in PDF. This is the story of the War Between the States and its aftermath as told by Lt. General Richard Taylor.  Life in the Confederate Army $9.66 in softcover/1.25 in PDF. The following account of my experiences as a private soldier in the Confederate Army in the Great War of 1861-'65 records only the ordinary career of an ordinary Confederate soldier. It does not treat of campaigns, army maneuvers, or plans of battle, but only of the daily life of a common soldier, and of such things as fell under his observation. -- From the opening chapter. This is a tale of the drudgery and ordinary life in camp -- all the things the great tales of the War Between the States generally leave out. |
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