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

Conditions Just After the War

“1865. North Carolina. In a letter to a friend, the last Confederate Governor of North Carolina describes the first weeks after the Confederate surrender”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:North Carolina, loc:Raleigh NC, pd:1931, su:homefront, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Diary of William Plumer Jacobs

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Charleston SC, loc:Clinton SC, pd:1937, su:child boy, su:Child Experience, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

Alabama Secedes From the Union

“November 1860-January 1861. Montgomery. Alabama. A judge reviews the election events in 1860 and the secession debates in Alabama.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, pd:1931, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:narrative

A Letter of Captain V. Chamberlain 7th Connecticut Volunteers

“Hilton Head, South Carolina, and Jacksonville, Florida. A Union Officer describes two occupied towns.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:South Carolina, milt:7th connecticut volunteers, pd:1936, su:battlefield, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Selections From the Autobiography of Governor T.T. Crittenden

Tags: au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Lafayette County MO, loc:Lexington MO, loc:Missouri, loc:St Louis MO, pd:1931, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:education, su:homefront, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:autobiography

Some Memories

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Kingdport TN, loc:Memphis TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1937, su:childhood, su:confederate, su:medical, su:military, su:Reconstruction, su:religion, su:war experience, ts:diary, ts:memory

War Recollections 1 of 3

“1862- 1865. Near Winchester, Virginia. Recollections of a lady, near ninety years old, of events near her home in the Shenandoah Valley.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, loc:Winchester VA, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:military, su:non-slaveholding white, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:memory

Missouri History Not Found in Textbooks: Sale of Slaves at Columbia in 1864

Tags: era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Columbia MO, loc:Missouri, su:economics, su:enslaved, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:offical documents

Remainiscing in Lively Vein

“December 1864. Near Eatonton, Georgia. An Arkansas rifleman remembers some interesting events from his experience in Georgia as a straggler trying to escape Sherman’s army.”

Going Home From the Army

“April-May 1865. Greensboro, North Carolina to Benton County, Arkansas. An Arkansas paroled soldier recalls the many intricacies of his journey home after the war.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Benton County Ak, loc:Chattanooga County GA, loc:Georgia, loc:Washington GA, pd:1930, su:confederate, su:military, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

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