It was during the war that Charles Ritchie and Elizabeth Bowen first met. The occasion was a christening at a country church in Oxfordshire, and soon afterwards their consuming love affair began. In ...

This account, titled The Civil War Diary of Rev James Sheeran, CSsR: Chaplain, Confederate, Redemptorist, was edited by Patrick J Hayes from Pennsylvania. It gives a detailed view of what life was ...

A diary entry is a type of recount ... Watch this video about diaries and why they were so important during World War I. Use the information from the article to support you in writing a few ...

A diary entry is a type of recount ... Watch this video about diaries and why they were so important during World War I. Use the information from the article to support you in writing a few ...

It is the diary of Fearn's mother, a white southern slaveholding woman, recounting her experiences during and after the Civil War. In this segment, she considers emancipation and the effect it ...

While acquiring a large collection of books, periodicals, pamphlets, manuscripts, and ephemera related to Lincoln and the Civil War era ... enclosed with the diary. The collection is organized into ...

Although Davis's daily entries are sparse, brief snapshots of her life ... heavily annotated edition of her Civil War-era pocket diaries. Drawing on scholarly traditions from history, literature, ...

For William's account, see Diary entries for July 11 through July 20 ... Read the National Museum of American History blog post on the Civil War Draft Riots in New York.