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

Women of the Sixties

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1919, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:war experience, ts:memory

Memories Grave and Gay

“The author recorded her Anti-Slavery and Civil War memories, work for the soldiers, a brighter side of life in the Civil War, etc.”

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, su:childhood, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:non-slaveholding white, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:seccession, ts:memory, ts:narrative

A Flordia Story of War Times

“1861-1864. Jacksonville, Florida, and South Georgia. A lady describes the coming of the war to north Florida and her family’s efforts to escape to South Georgia.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, pd:1893, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:military, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, su:travel, ts:memory

In Winter Quarters at Dalton, Ga., in 1863-64

"December 1863-April 1864. Near Dalton, Georgia. A former Confederate soldier describes how he and his mates were dependent upon the local farmers for food and other supplies."

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1863, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Dalton GA, loc:Georgia, milt:2nd Georgia Battalion, pd:1918, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

The Story of my Life: or More than a Half-Century as I Have Lived it and Seen it Lived

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Tennessee, pd:1912, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:political, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

Reminscences of Caldwell County, N. C.: in the Great War of 1861-65

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Caldwell County NC, loc:North Carolina, milt:Company A 22nd N.C. Regiment, pd:1913, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory, ts:narrative

“The delicately emotional reminiscences of Mrs. George E. Pickett, with a brief portion on the ante-bellum years, much on the Civil War in VA as it seemed to a Confederate hero’s wife and then the sadness of defeat and reconstruction.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1917, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory