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

Letters to Secretary Chase from the South, 1861

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Letters From Nashville, 1862: A Portrait of Belle Meade

“1862. The Military Governor of Tennessee (Andrew Johnson) arrested General William Giles Harding as a political prisoner. During his six-month incarceration, his plantation, "Belle Meade," was managed by his wife, Elizabeth. These letters indicate…

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Letters of Thomas B. Hanly, 1863-1864

“Was in the CSA House Representatives and delegate to the CSA Convention.”

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Legislation of the Convention of 1861.

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Memoirs of W. W. Holden.

“Politics, little of battlefront; recollections of former Governor of North Carolina.”

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Marse Henry: An Autobiography

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My Diary North and South

“William Howard Russell in March 1861 arrived in the United States as a special correspondent for the London Times. Landing in New York, he entered the South in April and traveled by train to the Alabama River and then to Mobile, Pensacola, and Fort…

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