Research for Searching for Spartina
texts from the civil war era
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Comstock, J. L. An Introduction to the Study of Botany. Pratt, Woodford, Farmer, & Brace, 1856.
The Savannah Republican newspaper
The Savannah Daily Morning News newspaper
Stedman, Charles Ellery. Civil War Sketchbook of Charles Ellery Stedman, Surgeon, United States Navy: Biography and Commentary. Presidio Press, 1976.
Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Norton, 2019.
Macon, Emma Cassandra Riely and Rueben Conway Macon. Reminiscences of the Civil War. K.C.M. Paulson, 1911.
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“‘Oh Ye Americans’: The Autobiography of Omar ibd Sahed.” National Humanities Center Resource Toolbox. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/community/text3/religionomaribnsaid.pdf
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion.
Wilkinson, J. The Narrative of a Blockade Runner. Sheldon and Company, 1877.
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Contemporary sources
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Belle, Andrew McIlwaine. Mosquito Soldiers: Malaria, Yellow Fever, and the Course of the American Civil War. Louisiana State UP, 2010.
Bennett, Michael J. Union Jacks: Yankee Sailors in the Civil War. U of North Carolina P, 2005.
Bullard, Mary. Cumberland Island: A History. U of Georgia P, 2003.
Byrd, Ayana and Lori Tharps. Hair Story: Untangling the Roots of Black Hair in America. St. Martin’s Publishing Group, 2014.
Culpepper, Karen L. “Gossypium spp. (Cotton Root Bark): A Symbol of Herbal Resistance.” Journal of the American Herbalists Guild, vol. 15, no. 2, 2017, pp. 45-52.
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“The Fresnel Lens.” National Park Service, 14 April 2015, https://www.nps.gov/caha/learn/historyculture/ fresnellens.htm
Gibbs, Patricia A. “Re-creating Hominy: The One-Pot Breakfast Food of the Gentry and Staple of Blacks and Poor Whites in the Early Chesapeake.” Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. London, 1988.
Hager, Christopher. I Remain Yours: Common Lives in Civil War Letters. Harvard UP, 2018.
Hicks, Robert D. “The Popular Dose with Doctors: Quinine and the American Civil War.” Distillations Magazine, Science History Institute, 7 December 2013,
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Jabour, Anya. Topsy-Turvy: How the Civil War Turned the World Upside Down for Southern Children. Ivan R. Dee, 2010.
Katz-Hyman, Martha B. and Kim S. "Rice." World of a Slave: Encyclopedia of the Material Life of Slaves. Vols. A and B. Greenwood, 2011.
Keeney, Elizabeth B. The Botanizers: Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America. U of North Carolina P, 1992.
McPherson, James M. War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865. U of North Carolina P, 2012.
Mitchell, Faith. Hoodoo Medicine: Gullah Herbal Remedies. Summerhouse Press, 1999.
Morgan, Philip. African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee. U of Georgia P, 2010.
Pilato, Denise E. “The Use of Coston Flares by the US Navy in Civil War Blockade Operations: A Powerful Auxiliary of Incalculable Value.” Minerva Journal of Women and War, vol. 3, no. 1, 2009, pp. 65-86.
Wright, Nazera Sadiq. Black Girlhood in the Nineteenth Century. U of Illinois P, 2016.
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Wynne, Nick and Joe Crankshaw. Florida Civil War Blockades: Battling for the Coast. History Press, 2011.
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