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

William S. Stewart Letters, January 13, 1861 to December 4, 1864, Part 2

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Corinth, he:Battle of Iuka, he:Camp Jackson Affair, he:Island #10 Campaign, loc:Mississippi, loc:Missouri, pd:1966, su:battlefield, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

William S. Stewart Letters, January 13, 1861 to December 4, 1864, Part 1

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Corinth, he:Battle of Iuka, he:Camp Jackson Affair, he:Island #10 Campaign, loc:Mississippi, loc:Missouri, pd:1966, su:battlefield, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:union, su:warfront, ts:correspondence

Vicksburg Diary: The Journal of Gabriel M. Killgore

“February 13 to July 20, 1863-the campaign to Vicksburg.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Vicksburg, he:Siege of Vicksburg, loc:Claiborne Parish LA, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, milt:Claiborne Invincibles, pd:1964, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:diary

Unionists in Rockbridge County: The Correspondence of James Dorman Davidson concerning the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1860, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Lexington VA, loc:Rockbridge County VA, loc:Shenandoah Valley, loc:Virginia, pd:1965, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:political, su:seccession, su:union, ts:correspondence

TWO TIMROD LETTERS

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:postwar, loc:Columbus NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1962, su:civilian, su:economics, su:occupation, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Two Letters of H. Winbourne Drake, Civil War Refugee in Northwest Louisiana

“An account of flight to northwest Louisiana, surprisingly to find happiness and comfort.”

Tags: au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Louisiana, milt:Fifteenth Louisiana Cavalry Battalion, pd:1966, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Three Letters of William Henry Trescot to Howell Cobb, 1861

“January 14-February 3, 1861. Beaufort, South Carolina. Concerns South Carolinian Trescot's involvement in the secession crisis.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Barnwell Island SC, loc:Barnwell Island Plantation SC, loc:England, loc:South Carolina, pd:1967, su:confederate, su:plantation, su:political, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

The Wartime Experiences of Margaret McCalla: Confederate Refugee from East Tennessee

“1861-1864. Letters. Relates her departure from east Tennessee for Chester District, SC, only one day before the Union troops arrived. McCalla describes her efforts to care for her children (one son died, and another was born) and to raise crops on…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Morristown Tn, loc:Tennessee, pd:1965, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:political, su:southern, su:unionist, su:war experience, ts:correspondence