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

"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

A Glimpse at Occupied New Orleans: The Diary of Thomas H. Duval of Texas, 1863-1865

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:southern, era:1863, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Louisville, loc:New Orleans LA, pd:1989, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:southern, su:unionist, su:war experience, ts:diary

Arabella Lanktree Wilson's Civil War Letter

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Little Rock AR, loc:Pine Bluff Ar, pd:1988, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:local history, su:occupation, su:political, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Civil War on the Kansas-Missouri Border: The Narrative of Former Slave Andrew Williams

“1861-1863. Liberated from his master in Missouri by Union soldiers, Williams and his family moved to Fort Scott, then Lawrence, Kansas (where he witnessed Quantrill's Raid), and finally to Topeka.”

Tags: au:male, era:1863, era:Civil War, loc:Kansas, loc:Lawrence KS, pd:1984, su:African American, su:battlefield, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:slavery, su:union, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Cotton and Profits Across the Border: William Marsh Rice in Mexico, 1863-1865

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Mexico, loc:Texas, pd:1986, su:civilian, su:economics, su:homefront, su:political, su:southern, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:narrative

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

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

Letters from Little Rock of Captain James M. Bowler, 112th United States Colored Troops

“The letters of a Union captain to his wife and mother written during his stay in the area around Little Rock, from July to December 1864.”

Tags: au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Little Rock AR, milt:112th United States Colored Troops, pd:1981, su:African American, su:camp life, su:Freedmen, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Life in Confederate Arkansas: The Diary of Virginia Davis Gray, 1863-1865, Part I

"Virginia wife of the former principal of Princeton Female Academy, busied herself sewing clothes for the soldiers, working as a nurse, attending religious functions, and reading. She wrote about the war in Arkansas and her fear of Federal…

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:1863, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Dallas County Ar, loc:Princeton Ar, pd:1983, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:diary

Life in Confederate Arkansas: The Diary of Virginia Davis Gray, 1863-1866, Part II

"Virginia wife of the former principal of Princeton Female Academy, busied herself sewing clothes for the soldiers, working as a nurse, attending religious functions, and reading. She wrote about the war in Arkansas and her fear of Federal…

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:1863, era:1864, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Dallas County Ar, loc:Princeton Ar, pd:1983, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:diary

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