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

A Confederate Nurse: The Diary of Ada W. Bacot

“Ada W. Bacot's diary of her experiences as a nurse in the South Carolina hospital for Confederate soldiers in Charlottesville, Virginia provides a rare record of Confederate hospital life as perceived by a lady volunteer. Bacot, a young widow, did…

Tags: au:female, era:1860, era:1860s, era:1861, era:1862, era:1863, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:medical, su:plantation, su:war experience, ts:diary

Business Travel out of Texas during the Civil War: The Travel Diary of S. B. Brush, Pioneer Austin Merchant

Tags: au:male, era:1863, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc: Brownsville tx, loc:rio grande, loc:Texas, pd:1992, su:economics, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:southern, su:travel, ts:diary

Coping in Confederate Appalachia: Portrait of a Mountain Woman and Her Community at War

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Cherokee County NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1992, su:civilian, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:local history, su:non-slaveholding white, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence, ts:memory

Freedom: Wartime Genesis: Lower South

Tags: au:southern, era:Civil War, pd:1990, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:union, ts:correspondence, ts:memory

Recollections Grave and Gay

“Burton Harrison was private secretary to Jeff Davis. This work describes social life in CSA, especially in Richmond; also includes opinions on Confederate leaders.”

Train Running for the Confederacy, 1861-1865

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“1861-1865. The fascinating eyewitness account of Carter Anderson, a railroad conductor for the Confederacy. Anderson ran trains for the Virginia Central Railroad during Union Cavalry raids and movements of General Lee and Jackson's troops around…

Tags: au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1990, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:economics, su:Railroads, su:southern, ts:autobiography

The Civil War through the Eyes of a Sixteen-Year-Old Black Officer: The Letters of Lieutenant John H. Crowder of the 1st Louisiana Native Guards

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Baton Rouge LA, loc:Louisiana, milt:1st Lousisana Native Guards, pd:1994, su:African American, su:confederate, su:military, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

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