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

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

The Southern Spy: Letters on the Policy and Inauguration of the Lincoln War

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, pd:1861, su:confederate, su:political, su:spy, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

The Southern Women of the Second American Revolution: Their Trials, &c. Yankee Barbarity Illustrated. Our Naval Victories and Exploits of Confederate War Steamers. Capture of Yankee gunboats, &c.

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Galveston NC, loc:North Carolina, milt:Naval, pd:1863, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

The Stars and Bars: or, The Reign of Terror in Missouri

“In semi-fictional form, personal account of the hectic days of secession and war in northern Arkansas and Southern Missouri by a pro-Union author.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, he:undesignated conflict, loc:Missouri, pd:1863, su:battlefield, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory

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

The Whip, Hoe, and Sword; or, The Gulf-Department in '63

“A good account of life in the lower Mississippi River Valley in 1863 by a visitor from the North— particularly useful for observations of Creoles, the enslaved, and plantations.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:Mississippi, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:travel, ts:memory

Two Months in the Confederate States: Including a Visit to New Orleans Under the Domination of General Butler

“This English merchant visited the Confederate States primarily to investigate the status of debts owed by Southerners to English and foreign merchants. Corsan took ship for New Orleans, where he spent a few days before making his way through the…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, su:civilian, su:economics, su:travel, ts:narrative