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

A Patriotic Confederate Woman's War Diary, 1862-1863

“1862-1863. From Perote, Alabama, Mrs. Crossley wrote on such topics as her slaves, conscription, and sewing for Confederate soldiers.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Perote AL, pd:1958, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:diary

A TENNESSEAN AT THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG: THE DIARY OF SAMUEL ALEXANDER RAMSEY SWAN, MAY-JULY, 1863

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Siege of Vicksburg, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, milt:General Stephen D. Lee's Brigade, pd:1955, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:prison, su:warfront, ts:diary

A Billy Yank's Impressions of the South

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1862, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Columbus. Ky, loc:Kentucky, milt:39th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, pd:1953, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Autobiography of William Marvin

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Florida, loc:Key West FL, loc:Monroe County Fl, pd:1958, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:local history, su:observer, su:occupation, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:autobiography

A Christmas Story

Tags: au:male, era:1861, era:1862, loc:Dutch Mills Ar, loc:Hermannsburg Ar, loc:Washington County Ar, pd:1950, su:childhood, su:civilian, su:family narrative, su:German, su:homefront, su:non-slaveholding white, su:slavery, ts:memory

A Yankee Views the Agony of Savannah

“A Union soldier describes occupied Savannah.”

“January 29, 1865. A recent arrival from Boston wrote home about the devastation of Savannah and General Sherman's occupation of the city.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Georgia, loc:Savannah GA, pd:1959, su:civilian, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:observer, su:occupation, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Campaigning in Missouri: Civil war Memoir of General Jefferson C. Davis

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, he:undesignated conflict, loc:Missouri, pd:1959, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory

Confederate Finance: A Documentary Study of a Proposal of David L. Yulee

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1951, su:confederate, su:economics, su:military, ts:narrative

CARL SCHURZ'S LETTERS FROM THE SOUTH

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:postwar, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1951, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:correspondence

CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF HENRY W. BARROW TO JOHN W. FRIES

Tags: era:1860s, loc:North Carolina, loc:Winston-Salem NC, su:camp life, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

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