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

Marse Henry: An Autobiography

“Member of an editor-politician with limited material on the war years.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Tennessee, pd:1919, su:homefront, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

Martyrdom in Missouri: A History of Religious Proscription, the Seizure of Churches, and the Persecution of Ministers of the Gospel

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Missouri, pd:1870, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:political, su:religion, su:war experience, ts:narrative

A Report on Civil War America: Sir James Fergusson's Five-Week Visit

“September 17-October 23, 1861. Letter. Conservative member of the British Parliament. Traveled in both the North and South and visited the major personalities of the war. This letter to Lord Palmerston revealed that Fergusson favored the South and…

Tags: au:english, au:male, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:England, pd:1966, su:foreign, su:observer, su:political, su:seccession, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:correspondence, ts:memory

Augusta J. Evans on Secession in Letters

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1981, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, su:female experience, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:correspondence

A Memoir of Robert M.T. Hunter

“Hunter served as Secretary of State, CSA during part of the war.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1903, su:civilian, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:biography

A Belgian Consul on Conditions in the South in 1860 and 1862

“January 20, 1861, and November 15, 1862. Text of two reports by the consul at Atlanta, to Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs, describing conditions in the South and prospects for extending commerce to the region.”

Tags: loc:Atlanta GA, loc:Georgia, pd:1937, su:civilian, su:economics, su:homefront, su:observer, su:political, su:travel, ts:offical documents

A Flordia Story of War Times

“1861-1864. Jacksonville, Florida, and South Georgia. A lady describes the coming of the war to north Florida and her family’s efforts to escape to South Georgia.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1860s, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, pd:1893, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:military, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, su:travel, ts:memory