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

A Waif From Texas

“Ante-bellum recollections of life on a plantation, slaves in Texas Panhandle after the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:St. Louis MO, loc:Texas, pd:1901, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography

An Adventurous Trip

“1863? Memphis, Tennessee. A young woman’s trip to the river city with a friend.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Memphis TN, loc:Mississippi, loc:Tallahatchie County MS, loc:Tennessee, pd:1909, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:occupation, su:southern, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:memory

A Boy's Experience in the Civil War, 1860-1865.

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1904, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Autobiography of Arab.

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Charleston SC, loc:Colimbia SC, loc:South Carolina, milt:2nd South Carolina Cavalry, milt:Beaufort District Troop, milt:Jeb Stuart's Staff, pd:1901, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

A Virginia Girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865: Being a Record of the Actual Experiences of the Wife of a Confederate Officer

“1861-1865. The reminiscences of a young woman, unidentified, ‘in her own words.’ A Virginia girl and the ‘Romance of War’ - Harold Straubig’s Civil War eyewitness.”

Tags: au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Norfolk VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1903, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:autobiography, ts:memory

A Gentleman of the South: A Memory of the Black Belt From the Manuscript Memoirs of the Late Colonel Stanton Elmore

Tags: he:Battle of Bull Run, he:Battle of Gettysburg, loc:Alabama, loc:black belt, loc:Egypt, loc:London, pd:1903, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, ts:memory

Bethany: A Story of the Old South

“A tale of War Between the States.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, pd:1905, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:military, su:political, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Beersheba Springs (Tenn) in War Times

“1861-1865. Beersheba Springs, Tennessee. Recollections of the war’s impact on a beautiful mountain retreat.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Beersheba Springs Tn, loc:Tennessee, pd:1901, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Bill Arp: From the Uncivil War to Date, 1861-1903

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, pd:1903, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:narrative

Boy Memories of the War

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Liberity tn, loc:Tennessee, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:non-slaveholding white, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

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