I am having to do a memoir project for my upper level history class of Rebellion to Reconstruction at my university. The book must be over the Civil War era and has to be a memoir.
I was wondering if any of you have read any personal works written during the Civil War era (1850-1880) that you really enjoyed that were not so "popular" I should say. I am interested in women's roles during the Civil War, both Union and Confederate sides, so if you know of anything like that I would love to look further into it.
So I did a tiny bit of digging and was able to dig up the complete memoirs of
Ulysses S Grant http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4367
And William T Sherman http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4361
As Well as memoirs (not complete) of Lincoln http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3253
Confederate President Jefferson Davies http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19831
Sorry, I couldn't find anything to do with women, maybe someone else will have better luck. I'm not sure if there is a rule against using people these popular. I've read through them and they are all worth a read.
Hardtack and Coffee, it's a look back at the life of average soldiers
The memoir of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain is also pretty good, as is the oft quoted memoir of Elijah Hunt Rhodes.