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• The American Indian Under Reconstruction (last book of the Slaveholding Indians series; Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1925), by Annie Heloise Abel (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Notice (s.n., 1864), by John E. Snead (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Story of a Slave: A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times, Hitherto Unwritten, From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress (Chicago: Wesley, Elmore and Benson, 1894) (illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC)

• The Escape; Or, A Leap For Freedom: A Drama, in Five Acts, by William Wells Brown (Gutenberg ebook)

• Our World: or, The Slaveholder's Daughter, by F. Colburn Adams (Gutenberg text)

• Dorothy Angsleigh : a story of war times (W.B. Conkey Company, 1907), by Agnes Potter McGee and Max Bihn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anno sexto Gulielmi IV Regis : an act for carrying into further execution two acts of His present Majesty, relating to the compensation for slaves upon the abolition of slavery, and for facilitating the distribution and payment of such compensation. (18th March 1836.) (Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, printers to the King's most excellent Majesty, 1836), by Great Britain, Andrew Spottiswoode, George Eyre, Great Britain Parliament, and Great Britain. Sovereign (1830-1837 : William IV) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Louisa Picquet, the Octoroon: or, Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life (New York: The author, 1861), by Louisa Picquet and Hiram Mattison (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Report (s.n.], 1854), by United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and United States. Congress 1854-1855). Senate (page images at HathiTrust)

• Free Negro Owners of Slaves in the United States in 1830, Together with Absentee Ownership of Slaves in the United States in 1830 (Washington: Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, c1924), ed. by Carter Godwin Woodson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The American Indian as Slaveholder and Secessionist: An Omitted Chapter in the Diplomatic History of the Southern Confederacy (first book of the Slaveholding Indians series; Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1915), by Annie Heloise Abel (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The African Preacher: An Authentic Narrative (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, c1849), by William S. White
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• A Boy's Experience in the Civil War, 1860-1865, by Thomas Hughes (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Gleanings from Southland: Sketches of Life and Manners of the People of the South Before, During and After the War of Secession, With Extracts from the Author's Journal, and Epitome of the New South (Birmingham, AL: Roberts and Son, 1895), by Kate Cumming
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• The Gray Book (1920), by Sons of Confederate Veterans Gray Book Committee (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "Our Women in the War": The Lives They Lived; the Deaths They Died: From The Weekly News and Courier, Charleston, S. C. (Charleston, SC: News and Courier Book Presses, 1885) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Statutes at Large of the Confederate States of America (with public and private laws for the first session of First Congress, 1862), by Confederate States of America (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Proceedings of the Convention Establishing Provisional Government of Kentucky; Constitution of the Provisional Government; Letter of the Governor to the President; President's Message Recommending the Admission of Kentucky as a Member of the Confederate States; Acts of the Provisional Government Passed at Bowling Green (Augusta, GA: Steam Press of Chronicle and Sentinel, 1863), ed. by J. P. Burnside and P. B. Thompson (1943 reprint; page images at uky.edu)
• England, the United States, and the Southern Confederacy (Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1864), by F. W. Sargent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four years in Rebel capitals : an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death ; from original notes, collated in the years 1861 to 1865 (Gossip Print Co., 1890), by T. C. De Leon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of peace and war (The Macmillan Company; [etc., etc.], 1905), by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Benjamin H. Hill, secession and reconstruction (The University of Chicago Press, 1928), by Haywood J. Pearce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three months in the southern states: April, June, 1863. (S.H. Goetzel, 1864), by Arthur James Lyon Fremantle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Jefferson Davis. (Caxton Publishing House;, 1868), by Frank H. Alfriend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jefferson Davis; the unreal and the real (Harper & Brothers, 1937), by Robert McNutt McElroy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoirs, with special reference to secession and the Civil War (The Neale pub. co., 1906), by John H. Reagan and Walter Flavius McCaleb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's (G.W. Dillingham Company, 1909), by T. C. De Leon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pictures of southern life, social, political, and military. (J. G. Gregory, 1861), by William Howard Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of peace and war (The Macmillan company;, 1904), by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Confederate scrap-book. Copied from a scrap-book kept by a young girl during and immediately after the war, with additions from war copies of the "Southern literary messenger" and "Illustrated news" loaned by friends, and other selections as accredited. (J. H. Hill Print. Co., 1893), by Lizzie Cary Daniel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The civil war in America. (G. A. Fuller, 1861), by William Howard Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four years in rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death. From original notes, collated in the years 1861 to 1865 (The Gossip printing co., 1975), by T. C. De Leon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Historic papers on the causes of the civil war (Ashland Printing Co., 1909), by Eugenia Dunlap Potts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gray book (The Committee, 1920), by Sons of Confederate Veterans Gray Book Committee and Arthur H. Jennings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four years in rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy from birth to death: from original notes, collated in the years 1861 to 1865. (The Gossip printing company, 1892), by T. C. De Leon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Half-hours in southern history (B. F. Johnson Publishing Co., 1907), by J. Lesslie Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reminiscences of peace and war. (Grosset & Dunlap, 1908), by Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three months in the southern states: April-June, 1863. (J. Bradburn (successor to M. Doolady), 1864), by Arthur James Lyon Fremantle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pictures of southern life, social, political, and military. Written for the London times (J. G. Gregory, 1861), by William Howard Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Confederate scrap-book. Copied from a scrap-book kept by a young girl during and immediately after the war, with additions from war copies of the "Southern literary messenger" and "Illustrated news" loaned by friends, and other selections as accredited. (J. H. Hill Print. Co., 1893), by Lizzie Cary Daniel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Jefferson Davis. (Caxton Publishing House;, 1868), by Frank H. Alfriend (page images at HathiTrust)
• A refutation of the charges against the Confederate States of America of having authorized the use of explosive and poisoned musket and rifle balls during the late Civil War of 1861-65 (G.W. Gary, printer and binder, 1879), by Horace Edwin Hayden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ordenes generales, no. 22. (Dept. of New Mexico?, 1864), by United States. Army. Dept. of New Mexico (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confederate veteran; address of Gen. E.P. Alexander on Alumni Day, West Point centennial, June 9, 1902. (For sale at G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1902), by Edward Porter Alexander (page images at HathiTrust)
• Four years in rebel capitals: (The Gossip printing company, 1892), by T. C. De Leon (page images at HathiTrust)
• In war time. Two years in the confederacy and two years north. With many reminiscences of the days long before the war. (J. D. Avil & Co., 1885), by Edwin Gilliam Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oration pronounced by Col. Charles C. Jones, Jr. : on the 31st October 1878, upon the occasion of the unveiling and dedication of the Confederate monument, erected by the Ladies Memorial Association of Augusta, Georgia. ([s.n., 1878), by Charles Colcock Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• A diary from Dixie (D. Appleton and company, 1905), by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, Myrta Lockett Avary, and Isabella D. Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On the recognition of the Southern confederation (R. Bentley, 1862), by James Spence (page images at HathiTrust)
• Confederate States almanac for the year of Our Lord 1864 : being bissextile, or leap year, and the 4th year of the independence of the Confederate States of America (Burke, Boykin ;, 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Confederate household almanac (H.C. Clarke, in the 1860s), by H. C. Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confederate States almanac for the year of our Lord 1862, being the 2d after bissextile, or leap year, the 86th of American independence, & the 2d of the Confederate States. (Southern Methodist Publ. House, 1862), by Thomas O. Summers (page images at HathiTrust)
• A resolution upon the subject of peace. (C. S. A., 1864), by Confederate States of America House of Representatives (page images at HathiTrust)
• A resolution [relating to overtures of peace. (C. S. A., 1864), by Confederate States of America House of Representatives (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joint resolution defining the position of the Confederate States, and declaring the determination of the Congress and the people thereof to prosecute the war till their independence is acknowledged. ([Richmond, 1864), by Confederate States of America Senate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Resolutions declaring the supremacy of the civil over the military law. (s.n.], 1864), by Confederate States of America House of Representatives (page images at HathiTrust)
• Resolutions [in relation to peace and independence.] (s.n.], 1865), by Confederate States of America House of Representatives (page images at HathiTrust)
• A resolution tendering negotiations for peace and a mitigation of the horrors of the war. (s.n.], 1864), by Confederate States of America House of Representatives (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joint resolutions expressing the sense of Congress on the subject of the late peace commission. (s.n.], 1865), by Confederate States of America House of Representatives (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confederate States almanac, and repository of useful knowledge, for 1863 : being the third year of the independence of the Confederate States of America. (H.C. Clarke, 1863), by Thomas P. Ashmore and H. C. Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address delivered at the General Military Hospital, Wilson, N.C., on the day appointed by the President as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer (s.n.], 1863), by Drury Lacy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confederate States almanac, and repository of useful knowledge, for the year 1865. Being the first year after bissextile or leap year, and the fifth of the independence of the Confederate States. Volume IV. ([H.C. Clarke, publisher, 1864), by H. C. Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• North Ca[rolina] Baptist alma[nac] for 1865 (s.n., 1864), by Needham Bryan Cobb (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confederate States Almanac, and repository of useful knowledge, for 1862 ([H.C. Clarke, 1861), by A. O. P. Nicholson and H. C. Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confederate States almanac, and repository of useful knowledge. For the year 1864 : being bissextile or leap year ; the fourth of Southern independence ; and, until July 4th, the eighty-eighth of the independence of the United States (H.C. Clarke, 1863), by H. C. Clark and Confederate States of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• Resolutions adopted by a meeting of the people of Powhatan, held in the Courthouse on February Court Day, 1865 [pledging loyalty to the cause of the Confederacy] ([Richmond, 1865), by Powhatan (Va.). Citizens and Charles Carter Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Resolutions adopted by Bratton's brigade, South Carolina volunteers, January 30th, 1865 [pledging loyalty to the cause of the Confederacy] (C. S. A., 1865), by Confederate States of America. Army. South Carolina Infantry. Bratton's Brigade and John B. Erwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report of the Committee on Foreign Relations. (n. p., 1862), by Confederate States of America House Committee on Foreign Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• An act to reduce the currency, and to authorize a new issue of treasury notes ; an act to levy additional taxes for the common defence and support of the government ; an act to organize forces to serve during the war. (s.n., 1864), by Confederate States of America (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jefferson Davis anniversary celebration : to the Confederate Veterans Association of Waverly, Alabama, June 3, 1908 (s.n., 1908), by William Holcombe Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• A refutation of the charges made against the Confederate States of America of having authorized the use of explosive and poisoned musket and rifle balls during the late civil war of 1861-65. (G. W. Gary, printer, 1879), by Horace Edwin Hayden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life in the South; from the commencement of the war. (Chapman and Hall, 1863), by Catherine Cooper Hopley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three months in the southern states: April-June, 1863. (W. Blackwood and sons, 1863), by Arthur James Lyon Fremantle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Confederate States almanac, and repository of useful knowledge for 1862 (H.C. Clarke, 1861), by H. C. Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The statutes at large of the Confederate States of America passed at the fourth session of the first Congress, 1863-4 : carefully collated with the originals at Richmond (R.M. Smith, Printer to Congress, 1864), by Confederate States of America and James M. Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• The statutes at large of the Confederate States of America commencing with the first session of the first Congress, 1862 : carefully collated with the originals at Richmond (R.M. Smith, Printer to Congress, 1862), by Confederate States of America and James M. Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• The statutes at large of the Confederate States of America passed at the first session of the second Congress, 1864 : carefully collated with the originals at Richmond (R.M. Smith, Printer to Congress, 1864), by Confederate States of America and James M. Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• The statutes at large of the Confederate States of America passed at the third session of the first Congress, 1863 : carefully collated with the originals at Richmond (R.M. Smith, Printer to Congress, 1863), by Confederate States of America and James M. Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• The statutes at large of the Confederate States of America passed at the second session of the first Congress, 1862 : carefully collated with the originals at Richmond (R.M. Smith, Printer to Congress, 1862), by Confederate States of America and James M. Matthews (page images at HathiTrust)
• A diary from Dixie (W. Heinemann, 1905), by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, Myrta Lockett Avary, and Isabella D. Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Address delivered by Gen. Bradley T. Johnson : before the Society of the army and navy of the Confederate States in the state of Maryland, and the Association of the Maryland line, at Maryland hall, Baltimore, Md. on Tuesday, November 16, 1886. (A.J. Conlon, 1886), by Bradley T. Johnson and Society of the Army and Navy of the Confederate States in the State of Maryland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dedication of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park : address (Brandon Print. Co., 1895), by William B. Bate (page images at HathiTrust)
• A diary from Dixie (D. Appleton, 1914), by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, Myrta Lockett Avary, and Isabella D. Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• La France et les États Confédérés. (E. Dentu;, 1865), by John Welsford Cowell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richmond during the war ; four years of personal observation (Carleton, 1867), by S. A. B. Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gen. Lee schottisch (Louisville : D. P. Faulds, [1866], 1866), by Brinley Richards (page images at HathiTrust)
• A diary from Dixie : as written by Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of James Chesnut, Jr., United States senator from South Carolina, 1859-1861, and afterward an aide to Jefferson Davis and a brigadier-general in the Confederate army (Peter Smith, 1929), by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, Myrta Lockett Avary, and Isabella D. Martin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The struggle of the Confederacy (Southern History Association, 1901), by J. L. M. Curry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cabinet meeting in Charlotte (Southern Historical Society, 1916), by J. A. Fore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks of Hon. Z.B. Vance, of North Carolina, in the Senate of the United States, Tuesday, January 13, 1885 (G.P.O.?, 1885), by Zebulon Baird Vance and William T. Sherman (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Richmond during the Confederacy (R.M. McBride Co., 1961), by Sallie A. Brock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A southern woman's story : life in Confederate Richmond. (McCowat-Mercer Press, 1959), by Phoebe Yates Pember (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A journal of hospital life in the Confederate army of Tennessee, from the battle of Shiloh to the end of the war: with sketches of life and character, and brief notices of current events during that period. (John P. Morgan & co.;, 1866), by Kate Cumming (page images at HathiTrust)
• A diary from Dixie, as written by Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of James Chesnut, Jr., United States senator from South Carolina, 1859-1861, and afterward an aide to Jefferson Davis and a brigadier-general in the Confederate army (Peter Smith, 1961), by Mary Boykin Chesnut, Myrta Lockett Avary, and Isabella D. Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of Jefferson Davis, by Frank H. Alfriend (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Civil War in America: Fuller's Modern Age, August 1861, by William Howard Russell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pictures of Southern Life, Social, Political, and Military., by William Howard Russell (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Refutation of the Charges Made against the Confederate States of America of Having Authorized the Use of Explosive and Poisoned Musket and Rifle Balls during the Late Civil War of 1861-65, by Horace Edwin Hayden (Gutenberg ebook)
• Four Years in Rebel Capitals: An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death, by T. C. De Leon (Gutenberg ebook)
• Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War, by Eugenia Dunlap Potts (Gutenberg ebook)

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