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

Civil War Letter from Paris, Texas, 1861

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:1861, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Paris TX, loc:Texas, milt:Confederate Indian Troop, pd:1966, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:Native American, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Chapel Hill at the Close of the War

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:1865, era:Civil War, loc:Chapel Hill NC, loc:North Carolina, su:civilian, su:education, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

CIVIL WAR LETTERS OF ALBERT BOULT FALL GUNNER FOR THE CONFEDERACY

Tags: au:confederate, au:male, era:Civil War, loc:Bowling Green Ky, loc:Kentucky, loc:Nashville TN, loc:Tennessee, milt:Rock City Guards, pd:1961, su:battlefield, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:religion, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Civil War Memoirs of Mrs. Adeline Deadrick

“1861-March 17, 1869. Eastern Tennessee. In recollections written in 1890 and 1898," Facts Transpiring Within My Own Knowledge During the War in 1863-1864," on outspoken woman describes the many stresses and strains of the war in Appalachian area of…

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:Chattanooga TN, loc:Tennessee, pd:1948, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:local history, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Confederate Hospitals at Petersburg, Va

“1862-1865. Petersburg, Virginia. A woman describes the tireless work by many individuals to help the Confederate wounded.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Petersburg VA, loc:Virginia, pd:1921, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:medical, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

Civil War Experiences of Sarah J. Yeater, Written in 1909 and 1910 for my Three
Granddaughters, Frances, and Christine Yeater and Jeanette Brookmeyer

“Southern sympathies forced to flee south in Arkansas and Texas.”

Tags: au:female, au:northern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, loc:Missouri, loc:Osage Academy MO, loc:Osceola MO, su:civilian, su:daily life, su:education, su:female experience, su:homefront, su:northern perspective, su:occupation, su:slavery, su:war experience, su:warfront, ts:autobiography, ts:memory

CIVIL WAR LETTERS

Tags: au:confederate, au:female, au:male, au:southern, era:1862, era:Civil War, loc:Crittenden County Ky, loc:Kentucky, pd:1974, su:camp life, su:confederate, su:homefront, su:war experience, ts:correspondence

Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War

“A Yankee war correspondent reported evenly, admired Southern way of life.”

Tags: au:male, au:southern, era:Civil War, loc:England, loc:London England, pd:1866, su:civilian, su:foreign, su:political, su:southern, su:travel, su:war experience, 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

Chronicles of Chicora Wood

“About one-third of this memoir by a member of a truly respected South Carolina family describes her difficulties and hardships during the war years.”

Tags: au:female, au:southern, era:antebellum, era:Civil War, era:postwar, loc:Georgetown County Ga, loc:Georgia, pd:1922, su:childhood, su:family narrative, su:female experience, su:occupation, su:plantation, su:southern, su:war experience, ts:memory

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