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Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865

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• The Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Communities (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1998), ed. by David Colin Crass, Steven D. Smith, Martha A. Zierden, and Richard D. Brooks (PDF at Tennessee)
• The Old South: A Monograph, by H. M. Hamill (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The committee consisting of Mr. Beresford, Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Chase, Mr. Spaight and Mr. Read, appointed to take into consideration the state of Indian affairs in the Southern Department, beg leave to report ... ([Annapolis : Printed by John Dunlap, 1784]), by United States Continental Congress (HTML at Evans TCP)

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• Facts the Historians Leave Out: A Youth's Confederate Primer (third printing; Montgomery, AL: Paragon Press, 1952), by John Shipley Tilley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Facts the Historians Leave Out: A Youth's Confederate Primer (presentation copy with signatures; fourth printing; Montgomery, AL: Paragon Press, 1952), by John Shipley Tilley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Address Delivered by Miss Mildred Lewis Rutherford, Athens, Ga., Historian General, United Daughters of the Confederacy: Historical Sins of Omission and Commission (1915), by Mildred Lewis Rutherford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Britannica Answered and the South Vindicated: A Defense of the South Against the Aspersions of the Encyclopedia Britannica, and a Criticism of that Work (Montgomery, AL: Press of the Alabama Printing Co., 1891), by Thaddeus K. Oglesby
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Some Truths of History; A Vindication of the South Against the Encyclopedia Britannica and Other Maligners (Atlanta, GA: Byrd Printing Co., 1903), by Thaddeus K. Oglesby
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The lower South in American history, (New York, London, The Macmillan company, 1902), by William Garrott Brown (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States (13 volumes; Washington: GPO, 1872), by United States Congress Joint Select Committee on the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States (multiple formats at archive.org and MOA)
• Speech of Maj. Gen. Thomas Ewing, Jr., of Kansas: Made Before the National Delegate Convention of Union Soldiers and Sailors at Cooper Institute, New York, July 4, 1868 (1868), by Thomas Ewing (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, by John Muir (illustrated HTML at Sierra Club)

• The new South / by Carl Schurz. (New York : American News Co., 1885), by Carl Schurz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richardson's defense of the South. (Atlanta, Ga., A. B. Caldwell, 1914), by John Anderson Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New South: A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution, by Holland Thompson (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Southern Colonial Backcountry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Frontier Communities (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, c1998), ed. by David Colin Crass, Steven D. Smith, Martha A. Zierden, and Richard D. Brooks (PDF at Tennessee)
• The Southern Frontier, 1670-1732 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1928), by Verner W. Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Beginnings, by Mary Johnston (Gutenberg text)
• The early history of the southern states: (Philadelphia, Key., Mielke and Biddle, 1832), by Francis Lister Hawks (page images at HathiTrust)

• Notes on recent work in southern history. (Richmond, 1892), by William P. Trent (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Journal of Southern History (partial serial archives)
• Publications of the Southern History Association (full serial archives)

• Memoirs of Tarleton Brown, a Captain in the Revolutionary Army, ed. by Tarleton Brown (HTML with commentary at sciway3.net)
• Life of Major General Henry Lee, Commander of Lee's Legion in The Revolutionary War, and Subsequently Governor of Virginia; To Which is Added the Life of General Thomas Sumter of South Carolina (Philadelphia: G.G. Evans, 1859), by Cecil B. Hartley, illust. by G. G. White
  • illustrated HTML with commentary at Lee Family Digital Archive
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Anecdotes of the American revolution, (Charleston, [S.C.] Printed by A. E. Miller, 1828), by Alexander Garden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Notes on recent work in southern history. (Richmond, 1892), by William P. Trent (page images at HathiTrust)

• The South in the building of the nation. Thirteen periods of United States history : two addresses delivered at Washington D.C., and New Orleans, La. / by Miss Mildred Lewis Rutherford. ([Athens, Ga.? : s.n., 1913?]), by Mildred Lewis Rutherford (page images at HathiTrust)

• The complete memoirs of Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States. (Philadelphia, Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1878), by John Henry Eaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Andrew Jackson, late major general and commander in chief of the Southern division of the Army of the United States. (Philadelphia, 1839), by John Henry Eaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Andrew Jackson, late major general and commander in chief of the Southern division of the army of the United States. (Philadelphia, 1833), by John Henry Eaton (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• U. D. C. Catechism of South Carolina Confederate History (revised and enlarged edition, 1923), by United Daughters of the Confederacy South Carolina Division
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Fire From Magnolia (c1952), by C. C. Pinckney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Jefferson Davis, President of the South (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by H. J. Eckenrode
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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 (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Officers in the Confederate States Navy, 1861-65 (office memoranda #8; Washington: GPO, 1898), by United States Naval War Records Office
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A short history of the Confederate states of America. (New York, Belford co., 1890), by Jefferson Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lost cause; a new southern history of the war of the Confederates. Comprising a full and authentic account of the rise and progress of the late southern confederacy--the campaigns, battles, incidents, and adventures of the most gigantic struggle of the world's history. Drawn from official sources, and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. By Edward A. Pollard. (New York, E. B. Treat; Baltimore, J. S. Morrow, 1867), by Edward Alfred Pollard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Echoes from the South. (New York, E. B. Treat & co., [etc., etc., 1866]), by Edward Alfred Pollard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of the Confederate States; (Richmond, Va., B.F. Johnson publishing company, 1895), by Joseph Tyrone Derry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Age [a southern monthly eclectic magazine] Wm. M. Burwell & Ernest Lagarde, editors (Richmond, E. Lagarde & co., proprietors, 1864-65), by Va.) Age (Richmond (page images at HathiTrust)
• Message of the Governor of Florida, transmitted, with the accompanying documents, to the General Assembly of the State, at the annual session commencing November 18, 1861. ([Tallahassee?, 1861]), by Florida. Governor (1861-1865 : Milton) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The southern women of the second American revolution. Their trials, &c. Yankee barbarity illustrated. Our naval victories and exploits of Confederate war steamers. Capture of Yankee gunboats, &c. By H. W. R. Jackson. (Atlanta, Intelligencer steam-power press, 1863), by H. W. R. Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lessons from an ancient fast. A discourse delivered in the Citadel Square Church, Charleston, S. C., on the occasion of the general fast, Thursday, June 13, 1861, by Rev. J. R. Kendrick. (Charleston, Steam-Power Presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1861), by J. R. Kendrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• A proclamation to the good people of the counties of Alexandria, Loudoun, Fairfax & Prince William. A reckless and unprincipled tyrant has invaded your soil. Abraham Lincoln ... ([Alexandria? Va., 1861]), by G. T. Beauregard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Message of the Governor of Florida: transmitted, with the accompanying documents, to the General Assembly of the State, at the annual session commencing November 17, 1862. ([S.l. : s.n. :, 1862]), by Florida. Governor (1861-1865 : Milton) (page images at HathiTrust)
• General orders ([Richmond : Adjutant and Inspector-General's Office, 1861?-1865]), by Confederate States of America. Adjutant and Inspector-General's Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lost cause; a new southern history of the war of the Confederates. (New York, E. B. Treat & co., Baltimore, Md., L. T. Palmer & co.; [etc., etc.], 1866), by Edward Alfred Pollard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richardson's defense of the South. (Atlanta, Ga., A. B. Caldwell, 1914), by John Anderson Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Rebel's Recollections, by George Cary Eggleston (Gutenberg ebook)
• Confederate Military History - Volume 5 (of 12): A Library of Confederate States History, by Ellison Capers, ed. by Clement A. Evans (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital, by J. B. Jones (Gutenberg ebook)

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