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

Macon, in the War Between the States

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, loc:Macon GA, pd:1924, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:local history, su:occupation, su:southern, ts:narrative

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 Journey Among the Contrabands: The Diary of Walter Totten Carpenter

“January 1-March 24, 1864. Sent by the Indiana Quakers to Tennessee and Alabama to monitor the aid being given to the slaves who had escaped to, or been brought within, Union lines, Carpenter recorded miles traveled, the weather, and conditions of…

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Indiana, loc:Tennessee, pd:1977, su:African American, su:civilian, su:enslaved, su:Freedmen, su:northern perspective, su:religion, su:slavery, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Atlanta in the Civil War

“1861-1865. Articles: ‘Life at the crossroads of the Confederacy, Atlanta 1861-1865 by Robert Gibbons’: ‘Foraging, scouting, and Skirmishing: the Federal occupation of Atlanta as seen in the letter of Maj. William C. Stevens, 9th Michigan Cavalry by…

A Boy and His Flag

“1861. Virginia. A young man in 1861 recalls his first Confederate flag and later coming back to Virginia from Baltimore and meeting confederate leaders north of Richmond.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, su:child boy, su:confederate, su:seccession, su:southern, su:travel, ts:narrative

A Borderland Confederate.

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Jefferson County WV, loc:West Virginia, pd:1962, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:war experience, ts:correspondence, ts:diary, ts:narrative

A Bluecoat's Account of the Camden Expedition

Tags: au:male, au:northern, au:union, era:1864, era:Civil War, loc:Arkansas, loc:Camden AR, pd:1965, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:union, su:warfront, ts:memory, ts:narrative

A Southern Home in War Times

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1914, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:plantation, su:slaveholding, su:slavery, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, from 1726 to 1871

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Augusta County VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1902, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Annals of Augusta County, Virginia, With Reminiscences Illustrative of the Vicissitudes of its Pioneer Settlers

“Includes chapters on the people involved in all facets of the history of this area including the settlement, wars (Indian, Revolutionary, and Civil), and the years after the war. A detailed diary written by a writer at Staunton gives a vivid account…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Augusta County VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1888, su:homefront, su:local history, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, ts:narrative

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