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

A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War

“1861-1865. Near Eufaula, Alabama. Recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during a blockade imposed on the South, life on a plantation.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, pd:1888, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:economics, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:seccession, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:travel, ts:narrative

A Midnight Raid and a Leap in the Dark

Tags: au:female, era:1863, loc:Harper Ferry WV, loc:Shenandoah Valley, loc:Virginia, loc:West Virginia, su:civilian, su:female experience, ts:memory

A Private Chapter of the War.

“A gripping account of Bailey's adventures behind Confederate lines in Georgia in 1864.”

Tags: era:1860s, era:1880, milt:6th infantry connecticut volunteers army of the potomac, su:army of the potomac, su:northern perspective, su:prison, su:war experience, ts:autobiography, ts:memory, ts:narrative

Confederate Moonshiners

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Cold Harbor, loc:Mechanicsville Va, loc:Virginia, pd:1885, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

Columbia—As Seen by a Rebel Scouting Party the Day After Sherman’s Evacuation

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Columbia GA, loc:Georgia, pd:1882, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

Confederate War History

Tags: au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Brice's Cross Roads, loc:Baldwyn MS, loc:Mississippi, loc:Tishomingo Creek, pd:1883, su:confederate, su:war experience, ts:diary

Evacuation of Richmond

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1885, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Echoes from hospital and White House

Tags: loc:Washington D.C., su:abraham lincoln, su:camp hospital, su:medical, su:religion

From Flag to Flag: A Woman's Adventures and Experiences in the South During the War, in Mexico, and in Cuba

“Mrs. Ripley and her husband lived on a Mississippi River plantation four miles below Baton Rouge, Louisiana. After the fall of New Orleans and the fighting around Baton Rouge, the Ripley’s fled to Texas. Sending some of their slaves ahead, they set…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc::Mexico, loc:Cuba, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1889, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:southern, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

History of the Civil War in America

Tags: au:French, au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1875, su:foreign, su:France, su:observer, su:political, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:narrative

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