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

Extracts from the Memoirs of William Franklin Avera

Tags: 5th Arkansas Artillery Company, au:confederate, au:male, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Arkansas, loc:Camden AR, loc:Ouachita County AR, milt:fifth arkansas artillery company csa, pd:1963, su:confederate, su:economics, su:military, su:Native American, su:southern, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:autobiography, ts:memory

Felix G. DeFontiane

Tags: au:southern, era:postwar, pd:1897, su:confederate, su:southern, ts:biography, ts:narrative

From the Diary of John R. Thompson

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:England, loc:Richmond VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1928, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:political, su:travel, su:war experience, ts:diary

From Gloom to Glory

“Late 1864. Middle Tennessee. A former Confederate chaplain offers a story about the joys of going from “rags and tatters” as Confederate paper is exchanged for “a 20-gold piece.”

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1864, era:Civil War, he:Battle of Nashville, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1922, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:military, su:warfront, ts:memory

Federals "Sweep the Coast": An Expedition into St. Charles Parish, August 1862

Forsaking All Others: A Story of Sherman's March Through Georgia

“Fiction-based facts? Southern suffering, the brutality of Sherman.”

Tags: au:female, era:1860s, era:Civil War, he:Sherman's March to the Sea, loc:Georgia, pd:1905, su:civilian, su:confederate, su:daily life, su:family narrative, su:military, su:slaveholding, su:southern, su:travel, ts:narrative

Four Years in Rebel Capitals: An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy, From Birth to Death

“1861-1865. De Leon spent most of the war years in Richmond, but his travels and comments warrant consideration. When the secession movement began De Leon was in Washington, but when delegates met in Montgomery to organize a central Confederate…

Tags: au:male, era:Civil War, pd:1890, su:confederate, su:military, su:observer, su:political, su:travel, ts:memory, ts:narrative