Browse Items · The Haskell Monroe Collection: Life in the Confederacy

From Cape Cod to Dixie and the Tropics

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, pd:1864, su:enslaved, su:northern perspective, su:observer, su:slavery, su:travel, ts:memory

A Picture of the Desolated States: And the Work of Restoration. 1865-1868.

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:postwar, pd:1868, su:battlefield, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:prison, su:Reconstruction, su:travel, su:warfront, ts:narrative

The South: A Tour of its Battlefields and Ruined Cities, a journey through the desolated states, and talks with the people: being a description of the present state of the country -- its agriculture -- railroads -- business and finances

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:postwar, pd:1866, su:battlefield, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:prison, su:Reconstruction, su:travel, su:warfront, ts:narrative

Seven Months a Prisoner, or Thirty-Six Days in the Woods

“Journey through western North Carolina following his escape.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, loc:South Carolina, pd:1868, su:confederate, su:military, su:prison, su:southern, ts:narrative

Down In Louisiana, 1862

“1862. Louisiana. A Presbyterian minister remembers the heat, mosquitoes, and concern for the CSA.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:Pecan Groove LA, pd:1919, su:medical, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:prison, su:religion, su:slavery, su:union, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Monthly Concert at Tampa Bay

“A missionary describes her visit to a one-room church; hymns were sung, and church officials tried to secure contributions for the donation box.”

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Hillsborough County FL, loc:Tampa Bay FL, pd:1862, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:religion, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Iron Furnace: or, Slavery and Secession.

“A highly colored description of events in northeast Mississippi from the eve of the war through the arrest of the author for pro-Yankee statements.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Mississippi, loc:Tupelo ms, pd:1865, su:civilian, su:Reconstruction, su:seccession, su:slavery, su:southern, su:union, ts:narrative

On Sherman's Track: Or, The South After the War

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Kentucky, loc:Missouri, pd:1867, su:African American, su:civilian, su:Freedmen, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, ts:memory

Heroic Deeds of Heroic Men

"A summary of events during the Civil War, at Pensacola, Apalachicola Bay, Santa Rosa Island, and Olustee, FL.."

Tags: era:1861, era:1863, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:undesignated conflict, loc:eastern shore va, loc:Florida, loc:Jacksonville FL, loc:Pensacola FL, loc:St. Augustine FL, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative

The Wedding at the Parker House

”Notes of black regiments at Punta Rassa, ca. 1865: The 2d and 99th U.S. Colored Infantry and 2d Florida (U.S.) Cavalry. Describes Fort Myers, the nearby Indians, a ball in celebration of the fall of Richmond, and a military wedding for an Indian…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Punta Rassa FL, su:African American, su:camp life, su:Freedmen, su:military, su:Native American, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:war experience, ts:memory

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