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

Random Recollections of a Long Life, 1806 to 1876.

“Life in South Carolina, principally in Columbia and Lexington, limited material on war years.”

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Vicksburg And After: Being the Experience of a Southern Merchant and Non-Combatant during the Sixties

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The War-Time Journal of a Georgia Girl, 1864-1865

"December 19, 1864—August 2, 1865. Andrews traveled over a broken railroad system and in wagons from Washington to a plantation near Albany, across the route of Sherman's march across Georgia. On the trains, she listened to a Confederate soldier…

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Other Days

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News From the Front

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Social Life in Old New Orleans, Being Recollections of my Girlhood

“Social life, plantation, New Orleans during War.”

Virginia Heroine, Mrs. E.A. Obenchain

“Summer of 1864. Lynchburg, Virginia. A determined lady’s experiences during a Union attack on her home and Lynchburg.”

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Plantation Life in the Sixties

“1861-1865. Western North Carolina. A young wife shares her memories of the war years in “the valley of the Tucakaseega River.” In Jackson County, North Carolina.”

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