(CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE) [Hopley Catherine Cooper] Life in t

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(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) [Hopley, Catherine Cooper.] Life in the South; from the Commencement of the War. Folding map. xvi, 427; viii, 404 pages. 2 volumes. 8vo, publisher's cloth, moderate wear; hinges split; several errors corrected in manuscript; inscribed on both title pages to James Macauley "with the grateful respects of the author," 6 March 1863. (MRS) London, 1863

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Memoirs of a teacher from England who found herself on plantations in Virginia and Florida during the war. "She found many admirable qualities in the Southerners and, even with a preconceived dislike of slavery, learned to understand the system"--Coulter, Confederate Travels 239. Howes H637 ("aa": "Best picture of plantation life in the early years of the war"); Nevins, page II:193.