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Mary Chesnut's Civil War
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Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman
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3.83 avg rating — 911 ratings
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All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
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4.16 avg rating — 870 ratings
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Bushwhackers and Broken Hearts: Letters from Missouri during the Civil War
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3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw
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4.15 avg rating — 195 ratings
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The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865
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3.99 avg rating — 406 ratings
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A Diary From Dixie
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3.93 avg rating — 1,356 ratings
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Lucy Breckinridge of Grove Hill: The Journal of a Virginia Girl, 1862-1864
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3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Private Mary Chestnut
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3.59 avg rating — 78 ratings
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A War of the People: Vermont Civil War Letters
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4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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An Uncommon Soldier: The Civil War Letters of Sarah Rosetta Wakeman, alias Pvt. Lyons Wakeman, 153rd Regiment, New York State Volunteers, 1862-1864
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3.87 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Letters from a Sharpshooter : The Civil War Letters of William B. Greene, Co. G 2nd United States Sharpshooters (Berdan's) Army of the Potomac 1861-1865
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3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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A Grand Army of Black Men: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union Army 1861–1865 (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, Series Number 63)
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4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Make Me a Map of the Valley: The Civil War Journal of Stonewall Jackson's Topographer
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3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Kate: The Journal of A Confederate Nurse
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4.22 avg rating — 87 ratings
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In the Shadow of the Enemy: The Civil War Journal of Ida Powell Dulaney
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4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Brokenburn: The Journal of Kate Stone, 1861-1868
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4.11 avg rating — 113 ratings
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A Yankee Horseman in the Shenandoah Valley: The Civil War Letters of John H. Black, Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter
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4.02 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Growing Up in the 1850s: The Journal of Agnes Lee
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3.57 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Andersonville Diary
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4.30 avg rating — 867 ratings
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A Plantation Mistress on the Eve of the Civil War: The Diary of Keziah Goodwyn Hopkins Brevard, 1860-1861
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3.38 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865
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4.08 avg rating — 965 ratings
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'A Secret to Be Burried' : The Diary and Life of Emily Hawley Gillespie, 1858-1888
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4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital: Vol 2
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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"I Can't Wait to Call You My Wife": African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era
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4.57 avg rating — 86 ratings
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A Virginia Girl in the Civil War: Being a Record of the Actual Experiences of the Wife of a Confederate Officer
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3.88 avg rating — 33 ratings
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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 (Mrs. Thomas Burge);
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3.90 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Beloved Bride: The Letters of Stonewall Jackson to His Wife
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4.12 avg rating — 157 ratings
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A Remembrance of Eden: Harriet Bailey Bullock Daniel's Memories of a Frontier Plantation in Arkansas, 1849-1872
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3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Brother of Mine: The Civil War Letters of Thomas and William Christie
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3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Southern Sons, Northern Soldiers
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, 1861–1866
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3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Maggie: The Civil War Journals of Maggie N. Vaulx
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Rebel Brothers: The Civil War Letters of the Truehearts
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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When the World Ended: The Diary of Emma LeConte
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Soldier Boy's Letters to His Father and Mother, 1862-1865
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Army Life in Virginia: The Civil War Letters of George C. Benedict
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Dear Sister: The Civil War Letters of the Brothers Gould
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Secret Eye: The Journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1848-1889
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4.05 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Josie Underwood's Civil War Diary
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4.47 avg rating — 38 ratings
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The Granger Brothers in Their Own Words: Letters Home from the Us Civil War Battlefield
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A Woman's Civil War: A Diary, with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Bully for the Band!: The Civil War Letters and Diary of Four Brothers in the 10th Vermont Infantry Band
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4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky: The Diary of Frances Peter
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4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Hard Marching Every Day: The Civil War Letters of Private Wilbur Fisk, 1861-1865
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3.96 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Preacher's Tale: The Civil War Journal of Rev. Francis Springer, Chaplain, U.S. Army of the Frontier
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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After Chancellorsville, Letters from the Heart: The Civil War Letters of Private Walter G. Dunn & Emma Randolph
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3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Troubled State: Civil War Journals of Franklin Archibald Dick
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Irish Green and Union Blue: The Civil War Letters of Peter Welsh, Color Sergeant, 28th Massachusetts
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4.05 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Failed Ambition: The Civil War Journals And Letters Of Cavalryman Homer Harris Jewett
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No Freedom Shrieker The Civil War Letters of Union Soldier Charles Biddlecom
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3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
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A Wisconsin Boy in Dixie: Civil War Letters of James K. Newton (A North Coast Book)
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4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Love and Valor : Intimate Civil War Letters Between Captain Jacob and Emeline Ritner
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4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Soldier Of Southwestern Virginia: The Civil War Letters Of Captain John Preston Sheffey
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front
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3.87 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Letters Home to Sarah: The Civil War Letters of Guy C. Taylor, Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin Volunteers
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Go If You Think It Your Duty: A Minnesota Couple's Civil War Letters
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3.91 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Brother of Mine: The Civil War Letters of Thomas and William Christie
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3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Longstreet's Aide: The Civil War Letters of Major Thomas J. Goree
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3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Civil War Nurse: the Diary and Letters of Hannah Ropes
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3.88 avg rating — 41 ratings
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The Civil War Letters of First Lieutenant James B. Thomas, Adjutant, 107th Pennsylvania Volunteers (Army of the Potomac Series)
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Yours for the Union: The Civil War Letters of John W. Chase, First Massachusetts Light Artillery (The North's Civil War)
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Rose Cottage Chronicles: Civil War Letters of the Bryant-Stephens Families of North Florida
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3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Fallen Leaves: The Civil War Letters of Major Henry Livermore Abbott
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4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Send Me a Pair of Old Boots & Kiss My Little Girls: The Civil War Letters of Richard and Mary Watkins, 1861-1865
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3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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In Care of Yellow River: The Complete Civil War Letters of Pvt. Eli Pinson Landers to His Mother
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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Col. Frank Huger, C.S.A.: The Civil War Letters of a Confederate Artillery Officer
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Their Patriotic Duty: The Civil War Letters of the Evans Family of Brown County, Ohio (The ^ANorth's Civil War)
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4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Love Letters From the Civil War
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3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home
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4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings
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My Heart Toward Home: Letters of a Family During the Civil War
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4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Wartime Washington: The Civil War Letters of Elizabeth Blair Lee
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Brothers 'Til Death: The Civil War Letters of Maggie, Thomas, and William Jones, 1861-1865
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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We Have It Damn Hard Out Here: The Civil War Letters of Sergeant Thomas W. Smith, 6th Pennsylvania Cavalry
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Letters of a Civil War Nurse: Cornelia Hancock, 1863-1865
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3.78 avg rating — 68 ratings
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A Grand Terrible Drama: From Gettysburg to Petersburg: The Civil War Letters of Charles Wellington Reed (The North's Civil War)
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Village Life in America 1852 to 1872 Including the Period of the American Civil War as Told in the Diary of a School Girl
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3.67 avg rating — 79 ratings
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One of Lee's Best Men: The Civil War Letters of General William Dorsey Pender
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Dennison's Andersonville Diary: The Diary of an Illinois Soldier in the Infamous Andersonville Prison Camp
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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A Soldier's Story Of The Siege of Vicksburg
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4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Letters to Amanda: The Civil War Letters of Marion Hill Fitzpatrick, Army of North Virginia
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4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Fear in North Carolina: The Civil War Journals and Letters of the Henry Family
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3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Shadows on My Heart: The Civil War Diary of Lucy Rebecca Buck of Virginia
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Charlotte's Boys: Civil War Letters of the Branch Family of Savannah
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4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Love amid the Turmoil: The Civil War Letters of William and Mary Vermillion
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Mr. Tubbs' Civil War (Ncte Research Report; 28)
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Tejanos in Gray: Civil War Letters of Captains Joseph Rafael de la Garza and Manuel Yturri (Volume 9) (Fronteras Series, sponsored by Texas A&M International University)
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Soldiering with Sherman: The Civil War Letters of George F. Cram
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4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Gideon Lincecum's Sword: Civil War Letters from the Texas Home Front
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Hour of Our Nation's Agony: The Civil War Letters of Lt. William Cowper Nelson of Mississippi
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
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4.02 avg rating — 467 ratings
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Four Years with the Iron Brigade: The Civil War Journals of William R Ray, Co. F, Seventh Wisconsin Infantry
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3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Civil War Journal of Private Heyward Emmell, Ambulance and Infantry Corps: A Very Disagreeable War
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3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Soldier's Pen: Firsthand Impressions of the Civil War
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Torn by War
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The Civil War Diary of Clara Solomon: Growing Up in New Orleans, 1861-1862
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This seems to be such a rich topic. I've been browsing here on Goodreads and have added over forty books to this list so far, and there's dozens more to add.
"All For the Union" by Elisha Hunt Rhodes is listed twice.
