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

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

“War, slavery, and politics.”

“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

“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

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

“As an 8-year-old, the author traveled with her mother to Corinth, MS, shortly after the 1862 battle there, to be near her ailing father.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Corinth MS, loc:Mississippi, pd:1901, su:child girl, su:childhood, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

“April 1865. Richmond, Virginia. A description of the full of the Confederate capital by a man “living on Church Hill in the city.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Richmond, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1909, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:Mississippi, loc:Yazzo County MS, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:economics, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:memory

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:North Carolina, loc:Smithville N.C., loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1905, su:confederate, su:economics, su:medical, su:military, su:political, su:southern, ts:memory

“This brief work concentrates on wartime Charleston.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Battery Wagner, he:Battle of Fort Wagner, he:Second Battle of Fort Wagner, loc:Charleston SC, loc:Fort Wagner SC, loc:South Carolina, milt:1st Regiment South Carolina Infantry, milt:Company D 1st Regiment South Carolina Infantry, pd:1909, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory