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[Identification of item], in Louisa Cheairs McKenny Sheppard's "A Confederate Girlhood" #1632, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Original lent by and returned to Susan and Cicely Sheppard of Skyland, N.C., in 1949.

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• Children--Confederate States of America--Social life and customs.
• Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
• Sheppard, Louisa Cheairs McKenny, b. 1848.
• Slavery--Confederate States of America.
• Springfield (Mo.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women.
• Vicksburg (Miss.)--History--Siege, 1863.
• Women--Confederate States of America--Social conditions.

Microfilm copy of Louisa Cheairs McKenny Sheppard's "A Confederate Girlhood," recollections of childhood, chiefly of 1860-1865, in Springfield, Mo., at the beginning of the Civil War and the subsequent war years spent in Yazoo County, Miss., in Arkansas, and in Texas. Included are vignettes of slaves, of the 1863 Vicksburg campaign, and of Confederate women's heroism.