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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)

Filed under: Confederate States of America -- Appropriations and expenditures

Message of the President, Richmond. Va., Nov. 29, 1864, by Confederate States of America Department of the Treasury
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Filed under: Confederate States of America -- Bibliography

Catalogue of the Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia Library at Wormsloe, Isle of Hope near Savannah, Georgia (3 volumes; 1931), by Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia Library (all volumes in 1 file: PDF at Digital Library of Georgia)
A Calendar of Confederate Papers, With a Biblography of Some Confederate Publications: Preliminary Report of the Southern Historical Manuscripts Commission, Prepared Under the Direction of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society (Richmond: Confederate Museum, 1908), by Douglas Southall Freeman and Confederate Memorial Literary Society Southern Historical Manuscripts Commission
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Filed under: Confederate States of America -- Biography

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)
The Sponsor Souvenir Album and History of the United Confederate Veterans' Reunion, 1895: Patriotic Poems, War Songs, Romantic Incidents, Biographical and Historical Sketches (Houston: Sponsor Souvenir Co., 1895), ed. by William Bledsoe Philpott
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Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison, by Belle Boyd
- Volume I: HTML and TEI at UNC
- Volume II: HTML and TEI at UNC

Filed under: Confederate States of America -- Church history

The Evils of Gaming: A Letter to a Friend in the Army ("no. 60"; Civil war era), by Jeremiah Bell Jeter
Why Do You Swear?, by John Nevins Andrews
Advice to Soldiers (civil-war era), by William Royal (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Prodigal Sons (Civil-war era publication), by Daniel Allen Penick (HTML and TEI at UNC)
A Tract for the Soldier (Raleigh: civil war era), by J. A. Proctor (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Filed under: Confederate States of America -- Commerce

Tariff of the Confederate States of America, Approved by Congress, May 21, 1861, To Be of Force From and After August 31, 1861, by Confederate States of America (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Filed under: Confederate States of America -- Defenses

Message from the Executive of the Commonwealth: With Accompanying Documents, Showing the Military and Naval Preparations for the Defence of the State of Virginia (1861), by Virginia (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Filed under: Confederate States of America -- Description and travel

My Diary North and South, by William Howard Russell (page images at MOA)

Filed under: Confederate States of America -- Economic conditions

The Confederate States of America, 1861-1865: A Financial and Industrial History of the South During the Civil War (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1901), by John Christopher Schwab
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The Collapse of the Confederacy (Washington: Associated Publishers, 1937), by Charles H. Wesley (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Confederate States of America -- Fiction

The Partisan Leader, by Beverley Tucker (multiple editions)
The Rivals: A Chickahominy Story (Richmond, VA: Ayres and Wade, 1864), by M. J. Haw
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Among the Pines: or, South in Secession-Time (published under "Edmund Kirke" pseudonym; New York: J. R. Gilmore, 1862), by James R. Gilmore

Filed under: Confederate States of America -- Foreign relations

Majority Report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs (1862), by Confederate States of America House Committee on Foreign Affairs
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Minority Report of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Presented by Mr. Smith, of Alabama (1862), by Confederate States of America House Committee on Foreign Affairs, contrib. by William Russell Smith
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A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Confederacy, Including the Diplomatic Correspondence, 1861-1865 (2 volumes; Nashville: United States Pub. Co., 1905), ed. by James D. Richardson
Tariff of the Confederate States of America, Approved by Congress, May 21, 1861, To Be of Force From and After August 31, 1861, by Confederate States of America (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Filed under: Confederate States of America -- History

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government ("abridged for the modern reader", with added preface; New York: Collier Books, 1961), by Jefferson Davis, contrib. by Earl Schenck Miers (page images at HathiTrust)
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (United Daughters of the Confederacy memorial edition; 2 volumes; Richmond, VA: Garrett and Massie, ca. 1938), by Jefferson Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
The Collapse of the Confederacy (Washington: Associated Publishers, 1937), by Charles H. Wesley (page images at HathiTrust)
Confederate War Papers (New York: Atlantic Publishing and Engraving Co., 1884), by Gustavus Woodson Smith (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)
The Day of the Confederacy: A Chronicle of the Embattled South, by Nathaniel W. Stephenson (Gutenberg text)
Monthly Programs: United Daughters of the Confederacy and Children of the Confederacy (1916), by Mildred Lewis Rutherford (multiple formats at archive.org)
A Rebel's Recollections, by George Cary Eggleston (HTML and TEI at UNC)
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (2 volumes; New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1881), by Jefferson Davis
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1912), by Jefferson Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
A Short History of the Confederate States of America (New York: Belford Co., 1890), by Jefferson Davis
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U. D. C. Catechism of South Carolina Confederate History (revised and enlarged edition, 1923), by United Daughters of the Confederacy South Carolina Division
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Fire From Magnolia (c1952), by C. C. Pinckney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Jefferson Davis, President of the South (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by H. J. Eckenrode
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The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates (New York: E. B. Treat and Co.; et al., 1866), by Edward A. Pollard
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Officers in the Confederate States Navy, 1861-65 (office memoranda #8; Washington: GPO, 1898), by United States Naval War Records Office
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Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the Confederate States, to January 1, 1863 (Richmond, VA: Macfarlane and Fergusson, 1862), by Confederate States of America Navy
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Confederate Hand-Book: A Compilation of Important Data and Other Interesting and Valuable Matter Relating to the War Between the States, 1861-1865 (New Orleans, c1900), ed. by Robert C. Wood (page images at HathiTrust)
Lee and His Cause: or, The Why and the How of The War Between The States (New York and Washington: Neale Pub. Co., 1907), by John R. Deering
- illustrated HTML at Lee Family Digital Archive
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Filed under: Confederate States of America -- History, Military

Guide for Claimants of Deceased Soldiers (Richmond, VA: Geo. P. Evans and Co., Printers, 1864), by W. H. Fowler (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Lee's Dispatches: Unpublished Letters of General Robert E. Lee, C.S.A., to Jefferson Davis and the War Department of the Confederate States of America, 1862-65 (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915), by Robert E. Lee, ed. by Douglas Southall Freeman (multiple formats at archive.org)

Filed under: Confederate States of America -- History, Naval

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)

Filed under: Confederate States of America -- Imprints

What Constitutes a Confederate Imprint? Preliminary Suggestions for Bibliographers and Catalogers (Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1939), by Charles F. Heartman (page images at HathiTrust)

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