Children

"The Evacuation of Richmond"

"What a Boy Saw of the Civil War with Glimpses of Gen. Lee"

"A Girl's Experience in the Siege of Vicksburg"

A Young Girl in the Missouri Border War

What would it have been like to be a child during the war and to experience military occupation? For all the scholarship concerning the Civil War and life in the Confederate States, few explore this dimension of the conflict. The Haskell Monroe Collection: Life in the Confederacy offers various items of individuals documenting their childhood before, during, and after the war. Largely written decades later, these reflections tell a story of plantations and cities, conflict and peace, occupation and evacuation; collectively, these items seek to make sense of a rapidly changing world from a child's viewpoint.