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

Confederate Finance: A Documentary Study of a Proposal of David L. Yulee

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1951, su:confederate, su:economics, su:military, ts:narrative

Confederate Moonshiners

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Cold Harbor, loc:Mechanicsville Va, loc:Virginia, pd:1885, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

Conscripting Atlanta Theater in 1863

“A former Confederate soldier describes his role in being assigned “to conscript the theater” for evaders of military duty in crowded Atlanta.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Atlanta GA, loc:Georgia, milt:Company E 27th Mississippi Regiment, pd:1903, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:military, su:war experience, ts:memory

Corinth, Miss. in War Times

“1861-1865. Corinth, Mississippi. A lady remembers the war years in northeast Mississippi.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1861, era:Civil War, loc:Corinth MS, loc:Mississippi, milt:9th Mississippi Regiment, pd:1915, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:military, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Courtesy in War

“Spring 1863. Holly Springs, Mississippi. A Confederate recalls mutual courtesy between General Grant and the owners of the house he was using as his temporary headquarters.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1863, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Vicksburg, loc:Holly Springs MS, loc:Mississippi, loc:Vicksburg MS, pd:1931, su:camp life, su:homefront, su:military, su:occupation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

“July 1863. Near Tazewell, Virginia. A recollection of a daring riot by an “eighteen-year-old courier. . . beautiful of form and face” who rode to Wytheville, Virginia to warn the residents of a Yankee advance.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Virginia, loc:Wytheville VA, pd:1930, su:child girl, su:confederate, su:female experience, su:military, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:narrative

Defeat in Victory: Yankee Experience in Early Civil War Jacksonville

“March-April 1862. Diaries. Keene was a Northerner who had recently come to Florida to operate a hotel. He joined a local militia unit at the start of the secession crisis but resigned when it entered state service. In Jacksonville, where Union and…

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, au:northern, era:Civil War, loc:Florida, loc:Fort Steele, loc:Jacksonville FL, milt:Company A 3rd Florida Infantry, milt:Jacksonville Light Infantry, pd:1974, su:battlefield, su:confederate, su:military, su:northern perspective, su:warfront, ts:diary, ts:narrative