South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives
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Reminiscences of the Sixties (Columbia, SC: The State Co., ca. 1910), by Charles Crosland (page images at sc.edu)- Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 (New York: Harper and Bros., 1876), by Abner Doubleday
- 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)
- Old Plantation Days, by N. B. De Saussure (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Siege of Savannah in December, 1864, by Charles C. Jones (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Two Diaries from Middle St. John's, Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865 (Pinopolis, SC: St. John's Hunting Club, 1921), by Susan R. Jervey and Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, contrib. by Mary Rhodes Waring Henagan
- The Last Flag of Truce, by Dallas T. Ward (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Forget-Me-Nots of the Civil War, by Laura Elizabeth Lee Battle (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
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Filed under: South Carolina -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865- Journal of the Convention of the People of South Carolina, Held in 1860, 1861 and 1862, Together With the Ordinances, Reports, Resolutions, Etc. (Columbia, SC: R. W. Gibbes, 1862), by South Carolina Convention (1860-1862) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Report of the Committee on the Destruction of Churches in the Diocese of South Carolina During the Late War: Presented to the Protestant Episcopal Convention, May, 1868 (Charleston, SC: J. Walker, 1868), by Episcopal Church Diocese of South Carolina, contrib. by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Peter J. Shand, and Paul Trapier
- Dixie (1903), by United Daughters of the Confederacy Dixie Chapter No. 395 (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Rumbling of the Chariot Wheels (Columbia, SC: The State Company, 1923), by I. Jenkins Mikell (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Correspondence Between the Commissioners of the State of So. Ca. to the Government at Washington and the President of the United States Together with the Statement of Messrs. Miles and Keitt (Charleston, SC: Evans and Cogswell, 1861), by South Carolina Convention (1860-1862)
- South Carolina Women in the Confederacy (Columbia, SC: The State Co., 1903-1907), by United Daughters of the Confederacy South Carolina Division
- U. D. C. Catechism of South Carolina Confederate History (revised and enlarged edition, 1923), by United Daughters of the Confederacy South Carolina Division
- Before the War, and After the Union: An Autobiography (Boston: Gold Mind, c1929), by Sam Aleckson (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Regulations for the Medical Department of the Military Forces of South Carolina (Columbia, SC: South Carolina Steam Printing Office, 1861), by Robert W. Gibbes
- Regulations for the Medical Department of the Military Forces of South Carolina (Columbia, SC: South Carolina Steam Printing Office, 1861), by Robert W. Gibbes
- Journal and Confederate (Camden, SC newspaper, 1865) (partial serial archives)
- The Palmetto Partisan (issues online 1985-2014), by Sons of Confederate Veterans, South Carolina Division. (partial serial archives)
- Proceedings of the State Bible Convention of South Carolina, Held at Columbia, Sept. 17 and 18, 1862; With a Sermon Preached Before the Convention (Columbia, SC: Southern Guardian Steam-Power Press, 1862), contrib. by George Howe
- Dixie (1903), by United Daughters of the Confederacy Dixie Chapter No. 395 (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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
- Charleston Blockade: The Journals of John B. Marchand, U.S. Navy, 1861-1862 (Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 1976), by John B. Marchand, ed. by Craig L. Symonds (PDF at ibiblio.org)
- Four Years in Secessia: Adventures Within and Beyond the Union Lines, Embracing a Great Variety of Facts, Incidents, and Romance of the War (Hartford: O.D. Case and Co.; et al., 1865), by Junius Henri Browne
- 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)
- Dear Folks at Home: The Civil War Letters of Leo W. and John I. Faller, With an Account of Andersonville (Carlisle, PA: Cumberland County Historical Society and Hamilton Library Association, 1963), by Leo W. Faller and John I. Faller, ed. by Milton Embick Flower (page images at HathiTrust)
- From Bull Run to Bristow Station (St. Paul, MN: North Central Pub. Co., c1962), by Edward H. Bassett, ed. by Morton Harrison Bassett, contrib. by Russell W. Fridley (page images at HathiTrust)
- Reminiscences of Two Years with the Colored Troops (Providence: N. Bangs Williams and Co., 1880), by Joshua M. Addeman (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Miscellaneous Writings of George C. Harding (Indianapolis: Carlon and Hollenbeck, 1882), by George C. Harding, ed. by Julia C. Harding (HTML and page images at Indiana)
- Reminiscences of Service with Colored Troops in the Army of the Cumberland, 1863-65 (Providence: Rhode Island Soldiers and Sailors Historical Society, 1885), by T. J. Morgan
- 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)
- Hospital Sketches (Boston: James Redpath, 1863), by Louisa May Alcott (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Through "Poverty’s Vale": A Hardscrabble Boyhood in Upstate New York, 1832-1862 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c1974), by Henry Conklin, ed. by Wendell Edward Tripp (Epub with commentary at Syracuse)
- Hospital Days (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1870), by Jane Stuart Woolsey (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Recollections of a Newsboy in the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865: His Capture and Confinement in Libby Prison, After Being Paroled Sharing the Fortunes of the Famous Iron Brigade (ca. 1904), by Cullen B. Aubery (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sketches of War History, 1861-1865 (6 volumes of papers read before the Ohio Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, published 1888-1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War (New York: The Century Co., 1913), ed. by George Washington Cable, contrib. by William Pittenger, A. E. Richards, Basil Wilson Duke, Orlando B. Willcox, Thomas Henry Hines, Frank E. Moran, W. H. Shelton, and John Taylor Wood (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Letters From Libby Prison: Being the Authentic Letters Written While in Confederate Captivity in the Notorious Libby Prison, at Richmond (New York: Greenwich Book Publishers, 1956), by Frederick A. Bartleson, ed. by Margaret W. Peelle (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- Among the Cotton Thieves, by Edward Bacon (page images at MOA)
- 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)
- War Record and Personal Experiences of Walter Raleigh Robbins, From April 22, 1861, to August 4, 1865 (1923), by Walter Raleigh Robbins, ed. by Lilian Rea (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- Those I Have Met: or, Boys in Blue, in Which is Remembered Those I Have Met Along The Road of Life (Anderson, IN: S. Harden, 1888), by Samuel Harden (HTML and page images at Indiana)
- History of the Forty-Second Indiana Volunteer Infantry (Chicago: Donohue and Henneberry, 1892), by Spillard F. Horrall (HTML and page images at Indiana)
- Under the Flag of the Nation: Diaries and Letters of Owen Johnston Hopkins, a Yankee Volunteer in the Civil War (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1998), by Owen Johnston Hopkins, ed. by Otto F. Bond (PDF at Ohio State)
- Charleston Blockade: The Journals of John B. Marchand, U.S. Navy, 1861-1862 (Newport, RI: Naval War College Press, 1976), by John B. Marchand, ed. by Craig L. Symonds (PDF at ibiblio.org)
- Military Reminiscences of the Civil War (2 volumes; New York: C. Scribner's sons, 1900), by Jacob D. Cox
- Memoirs of Henry Villard, Journalist and Financier, 1835-1900 (2 volumes; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1904), by Henry Villard
- Crusader and Feminist: Letters of Jane Grey Swisshelm, 1858-1865 (St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1934), by Jane Grey Swisshelm, ed. by Arthur J. Larsen (page images with commentary at loc.gov)
- Echoes of Happy Valley: Letters and Diaries; Family Life in the South, Civil War History (Chapel Hill, NC: The author, 1962), by Thomas F. Hickerson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Memorable Events in the Life of Captain Jason W. James (ca. 1911), by Jason W. James (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- Four Years Campaigning in the Army of the Potomac, by Daniel G. Crotty (page images at MOA)
- Hospital Sketches, by Louisa May Alcott (Gutenberg text)
- Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, by Jacob D. Cox
- Nurse and Spy in the Union Army, by S. Emma E. Edmonds (page images at MOA)
- Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, by Philip Henry Sheridan (Gutenberg text)
- 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)
- A Woman's War Record, 1861-1865, by Septima M. Collis (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The South: A Tour of Its Battle-Fields and Ruined Cities, a Journey Through the Desolated States, and Talks With the People (Hartford: L. Stebbins, 1866), by J. T. Trowbridge (page images at MOA)
- The Battle of Bentonville (extract from "Sketches of War History, 1861-1865"; 1890), by William Passmore Carlin
- Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 (New York: Harper and Bros., 1876), by Abner Doubleday
- Reminiscences of My Life in Camp With the 33d United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers (Boston: The author, 1902), by Susie King Taylor
- Life and History of the Rev. Elijah P. Marrs, First Pastor of Beargrass Baptist Church, and Author (Louisville, KY: Bradley and Gilbert Co., 1885), by Elijah P. Marrs (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten (New York: Dryden Press, c1953), by Charlotte L. Forten, ed. by Ray Allen Billington (page images at HathiTrust)
- Behold He Cometh in the Clouds: A Religious Treatise from Inspiration and Illumination; With Life and Adventures of the Author (Hazel Green, KY: S. Cooper, printer, c1913), by George Washington Noble (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- My Diary North and South, by William Howard Russell (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)
- Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil Wars, by Dabney Herndon Maury (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 A. Livermore (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- Tupelo (Chicago: Rhodes and McClure Publishing Co., 1905), by John H. Aughey
- The Olive Branch of Peace and Good Will to Men: Anti-War History of the Brethren and Mennonites, the Peace People of the South, During the Civil War, 1861-1865 (Elgin, IL: Brethren Pub. House, 1907), by Samuel F. Sanger and Daniel Hays
- Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth, A. M., Ph. D., Lieutenant-Colonel, Retired, U. S. Army (Boston: Sherman, French and Co., c1914), by Charles Alexander (HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Army Life in a Black Regiment, by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Gutenberg text)
- 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)
- Reminiscences of the Civil War, by Cora Mitchel (HTML and TEI at UNC)
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