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

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

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

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 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

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

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 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 Virginia Girl in the First Year of the War

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Fairfax Va, loc:Virginia, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

“The author's recollections of his early days in Montgomery County and elsewhere in Kentucky with notices of his Civil War experiences and the activities of the 24th Kentucky (Union) Regiment based on a diary. Also included is a collection of the…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, he:Battle of Shiloh, he:Corinth Campaign, loc:Kentucky, milt:24th Kentucky Regiment, pd:1883, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:Reconstruction, su:travel, ts:biography, ts:memory

Autobiography of James L. Smith: Including also, Reminiscences of Slave Life, Recollections of the War, Education of Freedmen, Causes of the Exodus, etc.

“A description of the war by a slave driven from the Memphis area to Alabama and Mississippi.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Northern Neck Va, loc:Northumberland County Va, loc:Virginia, pd:1882, su:education, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:autobiography

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