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

Whitaker’s Reminiscences, Incidents and Anecdotes; Recollections of Other Days and years, or, What I Saw and heard, and Thought of People Whom I Knew, and What They Did and Said

“Wake County journalist candidly recalls events in North Carolina.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:New Bern NC, loc:North Carolina, loc:Raleigh NC, su:local history, su:political, su:seccession, su:southern, ts:narrative

War Days in Fayetteville, North Carolina: Reminiscences of 1861 to 1865

Tags: au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Fayetteville nc, loc:North Carolina, pd:1910, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:homefront, su:local history, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Village Life in America, 1852-1872 including the period of the American civil war as told in the diary of a schoolgirl

The Westover Journal of John A. Selden, Esqr

“The personal journal of the owner of the great James River plantation, which clearly reflects the effects of the war on his personal life and fortune.”

The University of North Carolina in the Civil War: An Address Delivered at the Centennial Celebration of the Opening of the Institution, June 5th, 1895

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Chapel Hill NC, loc:North Carolina, pd:1895, su:education, su:homefront, su:local history, su:military, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory, ts:narrative

The Story of a Border City During the Civil War

“1858-1866. A reminiscence of life in St. Louis from Secession to Radical rule by a ‘Professor in the University of Chicago, Resident of St. Louis from 1858 to 1866.’"

Tags: au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, loc:St Louis MO, pd:1908, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:local history, su:military, su:observer, su:occupation, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Siege and Fall of Selma, Alabama

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Selma, loc:Selma Al, pd:1923, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:local history, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

The Last Days of the War, 1863-1865

Tags: era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:North Carolina, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:local history, su:military, su:observer, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:memory

The Farm and the Fireside: Sketches of Domestic Life in War and Peace.

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Georgia, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, ts:memory, ts:narrative

The Evolution of a State, or Recollections of Old Texas Days

“J. Frank Dobie described this account as the "best of all books dealing with life in early Texas Bully reading." This reminiscence by a key Texas pioneer summarizes the decades from the early settlements by U.S. immigrants in Texas until he left the…

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Texas, pd:1900, su:battlefield, su:local history, su:military, su:southern, su:travel, ts:narrative

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