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

Robert Ormsby Sweeny: Some Civil War Sketches

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, pd:1983, su:camp life, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:travel, su:warfront, ts:narrative

My Relatives Are Leaving Me Very Fast': War Times Letters of James Wright to His Nephew

“June 14-July 3, 1864. A successful cotton producer from Russell County, AL, to his nephew stationed near Savannah. Concern for the young man's health, description of everyday activities on the plantation, and references to shortages of glass jars…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Columbus GA, loc:Georgia, loc:Oswichee Creek GA, loc:Russell County AL, pd:1982, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

In the Hands of the Compromisers: Letters of Robert W. Barnwell to James H. Hammond

Tags: era:1850s, era:antebellum, he:Nashville Convention, loc:Nashville TN, loc:South Carolina, su:political, ts:correspondence

The End of Oden's War: A Confederate Chaplain's Diary

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, milt:10th Regiment Alabama Infantry, milt:Company K 10th Regiment Alabama Infantry, pd:1981, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:diary

Witness for the Prosecution: The Civil War Letter of Lieutenant George Taylor

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Fayetteville Ar, milt:17th Arkansas Infantry, pd:1989, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:narrative

Notes and Documents: Strangers and Pilgrims': The Diary of Margaret Tilloston Kemble Nourse, 4 April-11 November 1862

Tags: au:female, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Fauquier County VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1983, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:southern, su:unionist, su:war experience, ts:diary

The Alexander Letters, 1787-1900

"1787-1900. 131 copies for the family. Selection from six sisters and four brothers, children of Adam Leopold Alexander and his wife, Sarah Hillhouse Gilbert."

“Southern Plantation life before the War, few CSA letters reprint from other sources.…

Tags: era:1700s, era:1800s, loc:Georgia, loc:Savannah GA, su:female education, su:female experience, ts:correspondence

Eight Months in Missouri: The Civil War Letters of Philander H. Nesbit

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, milt:1st Missouri Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, pd:1980, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:union, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

"My Dear Husband": A Texas Slave's Love Letter, 1862

December 28, 1862. Expressions of worry about and love for her husband Norfleet, a bondsman to enslaver Theophilus Perry (28th Texas Cavalry), who had gone into military service as Perry’s "personal servant.”

Tags: au:enslaved, au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Harrison County TX, loc:Spring Hill TX, loc:Texas, pd:1980, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:enslaved, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Wartime Scenes From Convent Windows: St. Cecilia, 1860 Through 1865

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1980, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:religion, su:war experience, ts:narrative

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