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

Recollections of Judge Wm. D. Wood, of San Marcos, TX. II Secession

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:San Marcos TX, loc:Texas, pd:1903, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:memory

Recollections of a Varied Career

“Massachusetts congressman's account of Roanoke Island and New Bern, pp. 51-76.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, milt: 25th Massacusetts Regimont, milt: 36th Massacusetts Regimont, pd:1908, su:battlefield, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:union, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

Random Recollections

“Memories of Richmond Bar, politics, and Civil War.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Richmond VA, pd:1905, su:child boy, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

Princess of Glendale: A Story of the South

“War, slavery, and politics.”

Our Faithful Slaves of Old

"1861-1865. General. Memories of loyal slaves during the war."

Tags: au:southern, era:1860s, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Fort Pickens, milt:thirty-seventh Mississippi regiment, pd:1901, su:enslaved, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:slaveholding, su:southern, ts:memory

On the Wing of Occasions: Being the Authorized Version of Certain Curious Episodes of the Late Civil War, Including the Hitherto Suppressed Narrative of the Kidnapping of President Lincoln

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, pd:1900, su:confederate, su:economics, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:political, su:southern, ts:narrative

Old Times in Dixie Land: A Southern Matron’s Memories

“Life in old South, before, during, and after the Civil War in Louisiana, includes diary and family conversations.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Cottage Hill Plantation, loc:East Feliciana La, loc:Jackson La, loc:Parish of East Feliciana La, pd:1901, su:enslaved, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography

Old Plantation days: Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War

“Actually misleading, for it contains much on the war, Sherman's March through Georgia and South Carolina, also includes beginning of conflict at Charleston.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, loc:South Carolina, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:local history, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory

Observations on Affairs in the South in the Spring of 1865 (as Given in a Letter to His Wife)

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Fauquier County VA, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1903, su:economics, su:homefront, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Notice to President Davis of His Election

“February 1861. Vicksburg, Mississippi. A former telegrapher remembers the notification to Jefferson Davis of his election as President.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Vicksburg, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, pd:1905, su:confederate, su:military, su:plantation, su:political, su:seccession, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

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