author
Maud E. Morrow
1853–1948
A child’s-eye Civil War memoir turns battlefield history into lived experience, following one family through wartime Mississippi with vivid, personal detail. Her short book stands out for its mix of innocence, memory, and immediacy.
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Recollections of the Civil War
by Maud E. Morrow
About the author
Born in 1853 and living until 1948, Maud E. Morrow is best known for Recollections of the Civil War, a brief memoir first published in 1901. The book presents the war through the perspective of a child, giving readers a personal view of everyday life during one of the most disruptive periods in American history.
In Recollections of the Civil War, she writes about wartime experiences in Jackson and Corinth, Mississippi, turning domestic moments, travel, fear, and confusion into scenes that feel close and human rather than distant and historical. That approach gives her work a special place among Civil War reminiscences: it is not a military history, but a memory of how war shaped ordinary family life.
Little biographical information about Morrow was readily confirmed in the sources I found beyond her dates and authorship of this memoir. Even so, her surviving work continues to be read because it preserves something rare—a remembered Civil War world seen not from headquarters or the battlefield, but from the eyes of a young witness.