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Among the Cotton Thieves, by Edward Bacon (page images at MOA)
Army Life in a Black Regiment, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Gutenberg text)
Autobiography and Reminiscences of John W. Carroll, by John W. Carroll (HTML and TEI at UNC)
The Bivouac and the Battlefield: or, Campaign Sketches in Virginia and Maryland, by George F. Noyes (page images at MOA)
Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field: Southern Adventure in Time of War, by Thomas Wallace Knox (page images at MOA)
Campaigning With Grant, by Horace Porter (HTML with commentary at Perseus)
Crusader and Feminist: Letters of Jane Grey Swisshelm, 1858-1865, by Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm, ed. by Arthur J. Larsen (HTML and page images at LOC)
Five Years in Texas: or, What You Did Not Hear During the War from January 1861 to January 1866, by Thomas North (page images at MOA)
Four Years Campaigning in the Army of the Potomac, by Daniel G. Crotty (page images at MOA)
Hospital Days (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1870), by Jane Stuart Woolsey (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
Hospital Sketches (Boston: James Redpath, 1863), by Louisa May Alcott (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
Hospital Sketches, by Louisa May Alcott (Gutenberg text)
The Husband Outwitted by His Wife, by Kate Plake (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Leaves from the Diary of an Army Surgeon, by Thomas T. Ellis (page images at MOA)
Memorial and Letters of Rev. John R. Adams, D.D., Chaplain of the Fifth Maine and the One Hundred and Twenty-First New York Regiments During the War of the Rebellion, Serving From the Beginning to Its Close (privately printed, 1890), by John Ripley Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, by Jacob D. Cox
- volume 1: Gutenberg text
- volume 2: Gutenberg text
My Diary North and South, by William Howard Russell (page images at MOA)
My Diary Of Rambles With The 25th Mass. Volunteer Infantry, With Burnside's Coast Division, 18th Army Corps, and Army of the James (Milford, MA: King and Billings, 1884), by D. L. Day (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
My Manse During the War: A Decade of Letters to the Rev. J. Thomas Murray, Editor of the Methodist Protestant, by T. B. Balch (HTML and TEI at UNC)
My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army, and in Relief Work at Home, in Hospitals, Camps, and at the Front, During the War of the Rebellion (Hartford: A.D. Worthington and Co., 1896), by Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
Nurse and Spy in the Union Army, by S. Emma E. Edmonds (page images at MOA)
Our Army Nurses: Interesting Sketches, Addresses, and Photographs of Nearly One Hundred of the Noble Women Who Served in Hospitals and on Battlefields During Our Civil War (Boston: B. Wilkins and Co., 1895), ed. by Mary Gardner Holland (multiple formats at archive.org)
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, by Philip Henry Sheridan (Gutenberg text)
Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars, by Dabney Herndon Maury (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Reminiscences of My Life in Camp With the 33d United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers, by Susie King Taylor (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Reminiscences of the Civil War, by Cora Mitchel (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Soldiers' Letters, From Camps, Battle-Field and Prison (New York: Bunce and Huntington, 1865), ed. by Lydia Minturn Post (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
The South: A Tour of Its Battle-Fields and Ruined Cities, a Journey Through the Desolated States, and Talks With the People, by J. T. Trowbridge (page images at MOA)
The Spy of the Rebellion: Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army During the Late Rebellion, Revealing Many Secrets of the War Hitherto Not Made Public (New York: G.W. Carleton and Co., 1886), by Allan Pinkerton (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Spy of the Rebellion: Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army During the Late Rebellion, Revealing Many Secrets of the War Hitherto Not Made Public (from the Bison Books reprint, without the copyrighted introduction), by Allan Pinkerton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
Tupelo, by John H. Aughey (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
A Woman's War Record, 1861-1865, by Septima M. Collis (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

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The Adventures of Two Alabama Boys, by H. J. Crumpton and Washington Bryan Crumpton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Autobiographical Sketch and Narrative of the War Between the States, by Jubal Anderson Early (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, by Virginia Clay-Clopton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Bill Arp: From the Uncivil War to Date, 1861-1903, by Bill Arp (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
A Boy's Experience in the Civil War, 1860-1865, by Thomas Hughes (HTML and TEI at UNC)
"Co. Aytch": Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment, or, A Side Show of the Big Show, by Samuel R. Watkins (Gutenberg text)
A Confederate Girl's Diary, by Sarah Morgan Dawson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth, by Rebecca Latimer Felton (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War, by Richard Taylor (HTML and TEI at UNC)
A Diary from Dixie (New York: D. Appleton, 1905), by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Diary of a Refugee, ed. by Frances Fearn, illust. by Rosalie Urquhart (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier, by L. Leon (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1919), by Bartlett Yancey Malone, ed. by William Whatley Pierson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Diary of Brigadier-General Marcus J. Wright, C.S.A., April 23, 1861 - February 26, 1863, by Marcus Joseph Wright (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Dr. J. G. M. Ramsey: Autobiography and Letters (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c2002), by J. G. M. Ramsey, ed. by William Best Hesseltine (PDF files at Newfound Press)
Ebb Tide: As Seen Through the Diary of Josephine Clay Habersham, 1863 (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1958), by Josephine Clay Habersham, ed. by Spencer Bidwell King, illust. by William Etsel Snowden (PDF and DjVu at Georgia)
The End of an Era, by John S. Wise (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Experience of a Confederate Chaplain, by A. D. Betts (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Extracts of Letters of Major-Gen'l Bryan Grimes, to His Wife: Written While in Active Service in the Army of Northern Virginia, by Bryan Grimes (and TEI at UNC)
Fagots from the Camp Fire, by Louis J. Dupré (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Forget-Me-Nots of the Civil War, by Laura Elizabeth Lee Battle (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Four Years Under Marse Robert, by Robert Stiles (HTML and TEI at UNC)
From Flag to Flag: A Woman's Adventures and Experiences in the South During the War, in Mexico, and in Cuba, by Eliza Ripley (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Georgia Boys With "Stonewall" Jackson: James Thomas Thompson and the Walton Infantry (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1967), by Aurelia Austin, contrib. by James Thomas Thompson (PDF and DjVu at Georgia)
A Grandmother's Recollection of Dixie, by Mary Norcott Bryan (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
The Heart of a Soldier, As Revealed in the Intimate Letters of Genl. George E. Pickett CSA, by George E. Pickett, contrib. by La Salle Corbell Pickett (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
How a One-Legged Rebel Lives: Reminiscences of the Civil War, by John S. Robson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
How It Was: Four Years Among the Rebels, by Mrs. Irby Morgan (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Humorous Incidents of the Civil War, by A. C. McLeary (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
The Immortal Six Hundred: A Story of Cruelty to Confederate Prisoners of War (second edition; Roanoke, VA: Stone Printing and Manufacturing Co., 1911), by J. Ogden Murray (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Last Flag of Truce, by Dallas T. Ward (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Letters of Warren Akin, Confederate Congressman (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, c1959), by Warren Akin, ed. by Bell Irvin Wiley (PDF and DjVu at Georgia)
Life Gleanings, by Thomas Joseph Macon (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Life in the Confederate Army... and Some Experiences and Sketches of Southern Life, by Arthur Peronneau Ford and Marion Johnstone Ford (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Memoir and Memorials: Elisha Franklin Paxton, Brigadier-General, C. S. A., by Elisha Franklin Paxton, ed. by John Gallatin Paxton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Memoirs of a Southerner, 1840-1923, by Edward J. Thomas (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby, by John Singleton Mosby, ed. by Charles Wells Russel (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
The Memoirs of Daniel Branson Coltrane: Co. I, 63rd Reg., N. C. Cavalry, C. S. A. (Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton, 1956), by Daniel Branson Coltrane (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson, by His Widow, Mary Anna Jackson (Louisville, KY: Prentice Press, Courier-Journal Job Print. Co., c1895), by Mary Anna Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
Military Reminiscences of Gen. Wm. R. Boggs, C. S. A., by William Robertson Boggs, ed. by William Kenneth Boyd (HTML and TEI at UNC)
"Morgan's Men": A Narrative of Personal Experiences, by Henry Lane Stone (HTML and TEI at UNC)
My Day: Reminiscences of a Long Life, by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
My Experience in the Confederate Army and in Northern Prisons, Written From Memory (Clarksburg, WV: Stonewall Jackson Chapter #1333, United Daughters of Confederacy, 1917), by John Rufus King (multiple formats at archive.org)
My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington, by Rose O'Neal Greenhow (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Narrative of Prison Life at Baltimore and Johnson's Island, Ohio, by Henry E. Shepherd (HTML and TEI at UNC)
North Carolina at Gettysburg, and Pickett's Charge a Misnomer; also, Sixty Years Afterwards and the Rearguard of the Confederacy, by Walter Clark (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
Observations of a Retired Veteran, by Henry C. Tinsley, ed. by Armistead C. Gordon (Gutenberg text)
Old Plantation Days, by N. B. De Saussure (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
One of Jackson's Foot Cavalry: His Experience and What He Saw During the War 1861-1865, by John H. Worsham (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
A Rebel's Recollections, by George Cary Eggleston (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Recollections and Reflections: An Auto of Half a Century and More, by Wharton J. Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Recollections Grave and Gay, by Mrs. Burton Harrison (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Recollections of a Naval Life, Including the Cruises of the Confederate States Steamers "Sumter" and "Alabama", by John McIntosh Kell (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Recollections of a Rebel Reefer, by James Morris Morgan (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Reminiscences of a Mississippian in Peace and War, by Frank Alexander Montgomery (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Orphan Brigade, by Lot D. Young (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Reminiscences of the Civil War, by John Brown Gordon (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Reminiscences of the Women of Missouri During the Sixties (Jefferson City, MO: Hugh Stephens Printing Co, ca. 1913), by United Daughters of the Confederacy Missouri Division (multiple formats at archive.org)
Reminiscences, or, Four Years in the Confederate Army: A History of the Experiences of the Private Soldier in Camp, Hospital, Prison, on the March, and on the Battlefield, 1861 to 1865 (Evansville, IN: Keller Print. and Pub. Co., 1898), by Jno. Will Dyer, contrib. by Amelia W. Dyer (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Siege of Savannah in December, 1864, by Charles C. Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Sketch of Cobb Legion Cavalry and Some Incidents and Scenes Remembered, by Wiley C. Howard (HTML and TEI at UNC)
A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn., With Reminiscences of Camp Douglas, by John M. Copley (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
A Soldier's Recollections: Leaves from the Diary of a Young Confederate, by Randolph H. McKim (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
A Soldier's Story: Prison Life and Other Incidents in the War of 1861-'65, by Miles O. Sherrill (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Some Reminiscences, by William Lawrence Royall (HTML and TEI at UNC)
South Carolina Women in the Confederacy (Columbia, SC: The State Co., 1903-1907), by United Daughters of the Confederacy South Carolina Division
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
A Southern Girl in '61: The War-Time Memories of a Confederate Senator's Daughter, by Louise Wigfall Wright (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
A Southern Woman's Story, by Phoebe Yates Pember
- page images at Google; US access only
- multiple formats at archive.org
A Southern Woman's War Time Reminiscences, by Elizabeth Lyle Saxon (HTML and TEI at UNC)
The Story of a Confederate Boy in the Civil War, by David E. Johnston (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Two Boys in the Civil War and After, by W. R. Houghton and M. B. Houghton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Two Diaries from Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865, by Susan R. Jervey and Charlotte St. J. Ravenel (HTML and TEI at UNC)
The Valley Campaigns: Being the Reminiscences of a Non-Combatant While Between the Lines in the Shenandoah Valley During the War of the States, by Thomas A. Ashby (HTML and TEI at UNC)
A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, ed. by Myrta Lockett Avary (HTML and TEI at UNC)
War Days in Fayetteville, North Carolina: Reminiscences of 1861 to 1865, ed. by United Daughters of the Confederacy (J.E.B. Stuart Chapter) (HTML and TEI at UNC)
The War: "Stonewall" Jackson, His Campaigns and Battles, The Regiment, As I Saw Them, by James H. Wood (HTML and TEI at UNC)
War Stories and School-Day Incidents for the Children, by B. M. Zettler (HTML and TEI at UNC)
The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865, by Eliza Frances Andrews (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes and Adventures of the War (1867), by John Esten Cooke (HTML and page images at Virginia)
With Sabre and Scalpel: The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon, by John A. Wyeth (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Confederate States Army, by Loreta Janeta Velazquez, ed. by C. J. Worthington (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
A Woman's Wartime Journal: An Account of the Passage Over a Georgia Plantation of Sherman's Army on the March to the Sea, by Dolly Sumner Lunt (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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