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

Civil War Letters of Sam Houston

“October 7, 1862-April 21, 1863. Huntsville, Texas. Three letters to the editor of the Nacogdoches Chronicle reveal ex-Governor Samuel Houston s criticism of President Jefferson Davis and leading generals and his despondency over the declining…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Cedar Point Tx, loc:Huntsville Tx, loc:Texas, pd:1978, su:homefront, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:correspondence

Children of Honor: Letters of Winston and Octavia Stephens, 1861-1862

Civil War Letters of George W. Allen

“July 24 - November 30, 1862. Arkansas. A Texas farm boy describes life near his Confederate Army post in central Arkansas in three letters.”

Tags: 10th Texas Infantry, 35th texas Cavalry, au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Austin Ar, loc:Texas, milt:23rd Brigade Washington County Dixie Blues, milt:Company A 10th Texas Infantry, milt:Company B Brown's Battalion 35th Texas Cavalry, milt:Dixie Blues Washington County, pd:1979, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:prison, ts:correspondence

Defeat in Victory: Yankee Experience in Early Civil War Jacksonville

“March-April 1862. Diaries. Keene was a Northerner who had recently come to Florida to operate a hotel. He joined a local militia unit at the start of the secession crisis but resigned when it entered state service. In Jacksonville, where Union and…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Fort Steele, loc:Jacksonville FL, milt:Company A 3rd Florida Infantry, milt:Jacksonville Light Infantry, pd:1974, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:warfront, ts:diary, ts:narrative

Extinguishing the Lights: The Teche District

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc: Plaquemines Parish LA, loc:Louisiana, loc:Port Eads Lighthouse LA, loc:South West Pass Light House LA, pd:1860, pd:1861, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Extinguishing the Lights: 1861

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc: Plaquemines Parish LA, loc:Louisiana, loc:Port Eads Lighthouse LA, loc:South West Pass Light House LA, pd:1860, pd:1861, pd:1978, su:local history, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

General David Hunter's Sack of Lexington, Virginia, June 10-14, 1864: An Account by Rose Page Pendleton

“June 10-14, 1864. Lexington, Virginia. The daughter of Brigadier General William Nelson Pendleton related how the women and children faced uncertainty and terror five days after the Federals came to their proud town.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Sack of Lexington VA, loc:Lexington VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1975, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:local history, su:occupation, su:southern, su:warfront, ts:memory