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

ANOTHER LETTER FROM "THE REBEL LAWYER" MONTFORT

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A French View of the Fall of Richmond: Alfred Paul's Report to Drouyn De Lhuys, April 11, 1865

“April 2-3, 1865. The French Consul in Richmond recorded the chaotic conditions of the Confederate evacuation of Richmond and the calm that existed when Federal troops took charge. He noted CSA Secretary of State Judah P. Benjamin's behavior as…

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A Visit to the Cities and Camps of the Confederate States

“Fitzgerald Ross, "Captain of Hussars in the Imperial Austrian Army." In May 1863, he made his way across the military lines in northern Virginia and went directly to Richmond. Finding easy access to military and civil leaders of the Confederacy, he…

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Of Judge Nicholas Sandifer

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A Letter from Bleak Hall, 1861

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Bleak Hall Plantation SC, loc:Charleston SC, loc:South Carolina, pd:1961, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:military, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:correspondence

A Memoir of the Thomson Family

A Southerner Views the South, 1865: Letters of Harvey M. Watterson

“June 7-July 8, 1865. North Carolina and Richmond, Virginia. This observer was sent to the defeated south to report to Andrew Johnson, a fellow Tennessean, and describe opinions in the region.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:New Bern NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Raleigh NC, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Tennessee, loc:Virginia, loc:Wilmington NC, pd:1960, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:plantation, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:correspondence

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