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

Yazoo: or, On the Picket Line of Freedom in the South. A Personal Narrative

“Just after the end of the war in Mississippi, this work gives a clear view of the defeated South and the conditions on the home front in 1865.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Mississippi, loc:Yazoo County MS, pd:1884, pd:1888, su:African American, su:daily life, su:education, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, ts:memory

Wilmington During the Blockade

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, he:Blockade of Wilmington, he:Seige of Wilmington, loc:North Carolina, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1886, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Vicksburg in 1862

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Vicksburg, he:Siege of Vicksburg, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, pd:1884, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

Valkyria, or Chaplets of Mars

“Epic of a fallen South.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, pd:1881, su:confederate, su:military, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative

Two little Confederates

“Based on boyhood experiences of Page and his brother Roswell.”

"A sequel to THE IRON FURNACE, narrating the experiences of a Union Presbyterian clergyman in northeast Mississippi during the secession period useful as an account of the intense feelings of the time; includes much information about the condition of…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Mississippi, loc:Tupelo ms, pd:1888, su:confederate, su:Reconstruction, su:seccession, su:southern, su:union, ts:narrative