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

Listen to the Mockingbird: The Life and Times of a Pioneer Virginia Family

“Family life during civil war and reconstruction. John Howe Capt., Co. E., 4th VA.”

“Letters to and from William Lowndes Yancey on life in Alabama, before and during the War and difficulties facing the CSA.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Alabama, loc:Montgomery AL, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1940, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:economics, su:military, su:political, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Tags: era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Topping Castle Va, loc:Virginia, pd:1918, su:confederate, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

Tags: era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Topping Castle Va, loc:Virginia, pd:1918, su:confederate, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:autobiography

“Although the work of a Presbyterian minister in St. Louis, this is a valuable insight into the difficulties of life in Border State during the War.”

Tags: au:male, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:St. Louis MO, loc:Virginia, pd:1871, su:African American, su:Freedmen, su:homefront, su:Reconstruction, su:religion, su:slavery, ts:autobiography

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Virginia, pd:1923, su:confederate, su:military, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:slavery, su:war experience, ts:biography

“Experiences of Campbellite minister in Missouri. Incarcerated as Southern sympathizer during the war, then served under John Morgan as a chaplain.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, pd:1887, su:confederate, su:medical, su:military, su:political, su:Reconstruction, su:seccession, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:autobiography, ts:memory

Tags: era:1850s, era:1860s, era:1870s, era:1880s, era:antebellum, era:postwar, he:battle of sharpsburg, loc:Virginia, milt: 13th Virginia regiment, pd:1891, su:military, su:political, su:religion, ts:biography

“Much on CSA, knew Lee and Jackson.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Lexington VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1920, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:enslaved, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:slavery, su:southern, ts:autobiography

“1861- 1865. Richmond, Virginia. A recollection of the Confederate Capital, especially women’s work in the hospitals.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, milt:3rd Regiment Troops for Local Defnese, milt:Dahlgren's Raiders, pd:1928, su:Battle of Richmond, su:child girl, su:civilian, su:homefront, su:medical, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory